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Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family, And Finding Yourself (2010)

by Ann Mah(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061771279 (ISBN13: 9780061771279)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

review 1: É uma história com conteúdos interessantes sobre Pequim e sobra a China em geral. Para quem se interessa por esse país tem alguns factos bastante engraçados de se conhecer. A história vai retratando várias comidas tradicionais, o que faz crescer água na boca. Relativamente à história da personagem, faz-nos refletir um pouco sobre as dificuldades do mundo profissional e que vale a pena confiarmos em nós próprios e perseguirmos os nossos sonhos até ao fim.
review 2: I bought this book by mistake. I was tired and browsed shoddily. I thought I had picked up an autobiographical story about a Chinese American woman who went to live for a spell in China, reflecting on her experience there of food, culture, and questions about personal identity. Instead, ... morewhen I got it home I realised it was a novel - of the worst sort: chick lit!!! How on earth did I miss that!!!? It was a Chinese American Bridget Jones, with a Beijing backdrop, angsting over still being single at 30. Although the protagonist was supposedly an intelligent talented writer, when it came to dealing with relationships of any kind she seemed several sandwiches short of a picnic, juvenile and pathetic. My inner feminist wanted to weep. However, my inner foodie quite enjoyed all the luscious descriptions of Chinese foods. And my inner elementary mandarin student enjoyed the challenge of trying to translate the snippets of mandarin pinyin before the meaning was given. So it wasn't a complete flop, for light light reading on a long long plane journey. But not a book for any kind of deep exploring of what it might really mean to be Chinese - shallow and disappointing to say the least. less

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