{"product_id":"in-the-kitchen-9781416571698","title":"In the Kitchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Monica Ali\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"mesmerizing\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) novel from Booker Prize-shortlisted author Monica Ali brings us into the vivid world of a London restaurant.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGabriel Lightfoot, an enterprising man from a northern English mill town, is making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, he aims to run a tight kitchen. Though he's under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, all Gabe's hard work looks set to pay off. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Until, that is, a worker is found dead in the kitchen's basement. It is a small death, a lonely death--but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Enter Lena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man. Under her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows--and the future he thought he wanted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With prose that \"crackles with verve and vivacity\" (\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"a truly Dickensian cast of characters\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Buffalo News\u003c\/i\u003e), Ali's \"portrait of a middle-aged Holden Caulfield wandering the streets\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e) is a sheer pleasure to read.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45149123739799,"sku":"9781416571698","price":1316.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781416571698.webp?v=1767295039","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/in-the-kitchen-9781416571698","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}