SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentand Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleset i
Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel
β Scribed by Gaile Parkin
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing;Random House
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
BONUS: This edition contains a Baking Cakes in Kigali This soaring novel introduces us to Angel Tungaraza: mother, cake baker, pillar of her community, keeper of secrets big and small. Angel?s kitchen is an oasis in the heart of Rwanda, where visitors stop to order cakes but end up sharing their stories, transforming their lives, leaving with new hope. In this vibrant, powerful setting, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is planned, a heartbreaking mystery involving Angel?s own family unravels, and extraordinary connections are made?as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angel?s life and the lives of those around her in the most astonishing ways.
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SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentand Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleset i
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### From Publishers Weekly Set in an international apartment complex in Rwanda, Parkin's appealing but overstuffed debut throws together university professors, U.N. employees and CIA agents among a panoply of traditions and cultures. Heroine Angel Tungararza has moved from Tanzania with her husband