The Last Chinese Chef: A Novel

The Last Chinese Chef: A Novel

<div>This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the best-selling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects: food. As in her previous novels, Mones&#8217;s captivating story also brings into focus a changing China -- this time the hidden world of high culinary culture.<br><Br>When Maggie McElroy, a widowed American food writer, learns of a Chinese paternity claim against her late husband&#8217;s estate, she has to go immediately to Beijing. She asks her magazine for time off, but her editor counters with an assignment: to profile the rising culinary star Sam Liang.<Br><Br>In China Maggie unties the knots of her husband&#8217;s past, finding out more than she expected about him and about herself. With Sam as her guide, she is also drawn deep into a world of food rooted in centuries of history and philosophy. To her surprise she begins to be transformed by the cuisine, by Sam&#8217;s family -- a querulous but loving pack of cooks and diners -- and most of all by Sam himself. The Last Chinese Chef is the exhilarating story of a woman regaining her soul in the most unexpected of places.</div>