Book of Salt

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Monique Truong: Book of Salt (2004, Penguin Random House)

272 pages

English language

Published Aug. 28, 2004 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-09-945545-5
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In deciding if he should accompany his employers to America, stay in France, or go back to his native Vietnam, Binh recalls his life in Vietnam, the jobs he's held since leaving there, and the people it has helped him meet.

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A rather lazy discussion. Some loved it, others thought the narrator's voice rang false. The book was a bit of a muddle, with deliberate ambiguities, possibly reflecting the passivity of the narrator, who couldn't even control his own narrative.

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  • Fiction, historical
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  • Paris (france), fiction