{"product_id":"9780345813817","title":"Mãn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing on the Giller Prize-nominated and Governor General's Literary Award-winning success of \u003ci\u003eRu,\u003c\/i\u003e Kim Thúy's latest novel is a triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined.\u003c\/b\u003e           Mãn 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 Mãn a husband—a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal.           Thrown into a new world, Mãn 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.          Mãn 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 Mãn discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair.          Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, \u003ci\u003eMãn\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House of Canada, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125624783088,"sku":"9780345813817","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345813817_p0.jpg?v=1763688571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345813817","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}