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Madame Proust And The Kosher Kitchen
  • Published: 15 July 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099441984
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $22.99

Madame Proust And The Kosher Kitchen

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'Magnificent... Like Michael Cunningham in his prizewinning The Hours, Taylor-shows how events in a writer's life and themes in his work have resonance for subsequent generations. Taylor's is, however, much the richer, subtler, less deterministic work...truly inspired' - Michael Arditti, The Times

Marie Prévost is a contemporary Canadian who sets off for Paris to research Proust and escape a failed romance. Sarah Bensimon is a young Parisian Jew who marries into an orthodox family and takes refuge in her kitchen, recreating a kosher version of classic French cuisine. The third woman is madame Jeanne Proust herself, fragments of whose 'diaries' are recreated with impeccably researched detail - as she worries about Marcel, his late-night habits, his diet and his unsuitable friends.

All these strands are brought poignantly together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders and insiders - in this intelligent and beautifully judged debut novel.
  • Published: 15 July 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099441984
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $22.99
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Kate Taylor

Kate Taylor was born in 1962 and spent several years in Paris as a child before living in Canada. She is the author of Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen.
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Praise for Madame Proust And The Kosher Kitchen

Taylor's meticulously crafted novel is an impressive debut

Daily Mail

Tenderness and subtlety: it is an ambitious project by a promising writer

Times Literary Supplement

The parallel portraits of old and new worlds are vividly atmospheric...contains a lot to admire

Sunday Telegraph