Description
In the fading grandeur of London’s Imperial Hotel, an embattled executive chef fights to preserve his culinary integrity while steering a volatile kitchen staffed by immigrant cooks whose talents are matched only by their precarious circumstances. As hotel management tightens its grip and business partners press for control, the kitchen becomes a pressure chamber where identity, exploitation, and ambition collide. Told with Monica Ali’s sharp observational edge and humane attention to character, the novel traces how power operates in everyday labor—and how a single turning point can unravel a life as quickly as a service can go wrong. Amid simmering rivalries and simmering secrets, the story asks what it costs to belong, to be seen, and to keep one’s principles intact when survival is on the line.
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ebook
Transworld
Published Jan 1, 2009
ISBN: 9781409081920
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In the Kitchen by Monica Ali.