Najmī, Ḥasan.
Summary: As Hassan Najmi's acclaimed novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator about his most famous clients, the renowned Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice Toklas, who-on the recommendation of Henri Matisse-hired Muhammad as their guide when they visited Morocco. Now close...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003