An edition of Der Koch (2010)

The Chef

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An edition of Der Koch (2010)

The Chef

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As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich's leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is feeling the bite and so Maravan - a Tamil dishwasher and undiscovered culinary genius - and Andrea - a stunningly beautiful waitress - find themselves out of a job and needing to find another way to survive. After Maravan seduces Andrea by cooking her a dinner that fuses the aphrodisiac recipes of his ancestors with the necromancy of molecular gastronomy, Andrea hits upon a business idea: romantic catering for couples. But even culinary magic can't ward off recession and when their new company begins to struggle, they are forced to enter into a much more unsavoury business, plunging them deep into an underworld where murder and sex feed otherwise unquenchable thirsts ...

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Atlantic Books
Language
English
Pages
297

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Subjects

Cooks, Fiction, Aphrodisiac cooking, Sri Lankans, Catering, Aphrodisiakum, Koch, Tamilen, Kriminalliteratur, Text, Roman, Deutsch, Fiction, general, Switzerland, fiction, Cuisine, Littérature suisse alémanique, Repas, Réfugiés, Tamouls (peuple d'Asie du Sud), Autrices et auteurs de Suisse, General, Thrillers

People

Koch, ..., Magdalena Berall

Places

Switzerland, Zurich (Switzerland), Zurich, Sri Lanka, Suisse, Zürich, Tamilen
Edition Availability
Cover of: The Chef
The Chef
Apr 01, 2015, Atlantic Books
in English
Cover of: The Chef
The Chef
2013, Atlantic Books
in English
Cover of: The Chef
The Chef
2013, Thorpe
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: Le cuisinier
Le cuisinier: roman
2011, Points
in French
Cover of: De kok
De kok
2011, Signatuur
in Dutch
Cover of: Der Koch
Der Koch
2011, Diogenes
paperback in German - 1. Auflage
Cover of: Le cuisinier
Le cuisinier
2010, Christian Bourgois éditeur
in French
Cover of: Der Koch
Der Koch
2010, Diogenes
paperback in German

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (page 293).

Translated from the German.

Published in
London
Translation Of
Der Koch
Translated From
German

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
833.92
Library of Congress
PT2681.U79 K5313 2013, PT2681.U79

Contributors

Translator
Jamie Bulloch

The Physical Object

Pagination
297 pages
Number of pages
297

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28937778M
Internet Archive
chef0000sute
ISBN 10
0857892916, 1782390618
ISBN 13
9780857892911, 9781782390619, 9780857892928
OCLC/WorldCat
816159967

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