{"product_id":"madame-proust-and-the-kosher-kitchen-by-kate-taylor","title":"Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe lives of three women intersect in this delicate and surprising novel about memory and loss, prejudice and unrequited love - not to mention literature and cooking as a cure for heartbreak. Their stories criss-cross between Paris in the 1890's at the height of the Dreyfus affair, France in 1942, and present-day Canada. Marie Prevost is a contemporary Canadian who sets off for Paris to research Proust and escape a failed romance - finding instead Madame Proust's 'unpublished diary' in the archives. Sarah Bensimon is a young Parisian Jew whose parents spirit her out of occupied France, and who ends up in Toronto. Marrying into an orthodox family, she 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43483679326282,"sku":"6491t","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6491t.jpg?v=1775537500","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/madame-proust-and-the-kosher-kitchen-by-kate-taylor","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}