{"product_id":"9781416579007","title":"In the Kitchen","description":"\u003cb\u003eMonica Ali, nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has written a follow-up to \u003ci\u003eBrick Lane\u003c\/i\u003e that will further establish her as one of England's most compelling and original voices.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gabriel L ightfoot is an enterprising man from a northern E ngland mill town, making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial H otel, he is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own. D espite the pressures, all his hard work looks set to pay off. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Until a worker is found dead in the kitchen's basement. It is a small death, a lonely death -- but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Elsewhere, Gabriel faces other complications. His father is dying of cancer, his girlfriend wants more from their relationship, and the restaurant manager appears to be running an illegal business under Gabe's nose. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Enter L ena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. U nder her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows -- and the future he thought he wanted. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Readers and reviewers have been stunned by the breadth of humanity in Monica Ali's fiction. S he is compared to D ickens and called one of three British novelists who are \"the voice of a generation\" by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. \u003ci\u003eIn the Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e is utterly contemporary yet has all the drama and heartbreak of a great nineteenth-century novel. Ali is sheer pleasure to read, a truly magnificent writer.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138638004464,"sku":"9781416579007","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416579007_p0.jpg?v=1763729917","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416579007","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}