Recipes for sad women / Héctor Abad ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abad Faciolince, Héctor Joaquín

Contributor:

McLean, Anne, 1962-

Standardized Title:

Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Sadness--Miscellanea.

Sadness.

Cooking--Social aspects--Miscellanea.

Cooking.

Women--Social life and customs--Miscellanea.

Women.

Women--Social life and customs.

Miscellanea.

Cooking--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

156 pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2012.

Summary:

"A book of ambiguous genre and delicate, playful wisdom, Recipes for Sad Women is not a novel and not a cookbook. But should you wish to know what food to prepare in the case of sobbing or of nervousness, what the closest thing to dinosaur meat is (and therefore the best remedy for guilt), or what to eat when you are perfectly healthy and enjoying reciprocated love, you will find no better collection of recipes on the market. An acclaimed novelist, essayist, journalist and translator, Abad's eccentric, sensual and wry guide is neither unserious, nor entirely plausible in its advice. Elegant, melancholic, funny and full of morsels of insight, it is deftly and movingly instructional on the proper appreciation of sadness"--P. [2] of cover.

Notes:

First published in Spanish as Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes in 1996 by Celacanto.

ISBN:

9781906548636

1906548633

OCLC:

756582200

Publisher Number:

99949325783