For twelve years, the first novel from the author of the famous intellectual bestseller Dictionary of the Lambeprier, the rhino for the Pope and the Boar’s Office – for the first time in Russian.
This book is a genuine feast for feelings, not a historical reconstruction, but a living miracle, the brightness of descriptions not inferior to the “perfumer” Patrick Zyuskind. This is the story of an orphan that enters the service of the kitchen in a huge ancient estate, and then becomes the most famous cook of his time. This is a story that unfolds in the shadow of an ancient legend, the story of impossible love, over which the estate differences, war or revolution are not powerful. After all, the first task that John Saturnall receives is not a cook, but already a cook seems to be completely impossible: having shown miracles of culinary art, to force Lady Lucretia to stop a hunger strike …
Author
Norfolk Lawrence
Translator
Bowed Maria
Publisher
Foreigner, 2014
Series
Foreign. literature. Modern classic
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