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THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE |
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THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE |
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| Author Name: |
AIMEE BENDER |
| Publisher Name: |
RANDOM HOUSE |
| ISBN: |
9780099538271 |
| Edition: |
PAPERBACK |
| Language: |
ENGLISH |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Publication Date: |
FEB 2011 |
| Price: |
 499.00 |
| List Price: |
399.00 |
| You Save: |
100 |
| Availablity: |
Yes |
| Shipping Time: |
3 - 4 DAYS |
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| About Book |
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the
periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, 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. She discovers this gift to her
horror, for her mother ı her cheerful, can-do mother ı tastes of despair and
desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything
can be revealed at any meal.
Roseıs gift forces her to confront the secret knowledge all families keep hidden ı
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 that 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. It is profound and funny, wise and
sad, and Aimee Bender's dazzling prose illuminates the strangeness of everyday
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