{"product_id":"mn-9780345813794","title":"Mn","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing on the Giller Prize-nominated and Governor Generals Literary Award-winning success of Ru  Kim Thys latest novel is a triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined. Mn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime  the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden  and her beloved Maman  who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter  Maman finds Mn a husband--a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal.  Thrown into a new world  Mn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art  with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion  time and place  and even bring her customers to tears.  Mn is a mystery--her name means \"perfect fulfillment \" yet she and her husband seem to drift along  respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris  everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch  and Mn discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair.  Full of indelible images of beauty  delicacy and quiet power  Mn is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language  its sensuousness and its love of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924168638517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345813790","price":65.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345813794.jpg?v=1794129853","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mn-9780345813794","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}