Books by Monique Truong
The Book of Salt
by Monique Truong
She chooses to write about 1930s Paris through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas
Interviews where books by Monique Truong were recommended
The best books on Hemingway in Paris, recommended by Wai Chee Dimock
Paris in the 1920s was a creative melting pot, the haunt of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. The Yale English professor gives us a feel for what it was like to be there