The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Informationen zum Autor Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own ; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master . Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext On the eve of her ninth birthday Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon-chocolate cake and to her horror discovers that she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. Suddenly food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed by any meal - truths about her mother's life outside the home! her father's strange detachment and her brother's clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up! she realises there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE is a luminous tale about the heartbreak of loving those whom you know too much about. Zusammenfassung _______________________________On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aimee Bender, Bender Aimee
• Editore: Windmill Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780099538264
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953826-4
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Serie: WINDMILL BOOKS
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary