How to Cook Your Husband the African Way (Kindle Single)
Book Details
Author(s)
Calixthe Beyala
Publisher
Peach Publishing
ISBN / ASIN
B00H84U6AA
ISBN-13
978B00H84U6A8
Sales Rank
#534,235
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
How to Cook Your Husband the African Way is the story of a woman who falls in love with her neighbour, the dashing and delicious Mr Bolobolo. Bolobolo has issues, however. He chases far too many girls and lives with his mother who expects visitors from outer space. She also talks to her chicken.
The heroine, Aissatou, wants a husband who is also a lover. Remembering her mother’s wisdom and the traditions of Africa, she sets out to cook her way to his heart. But it will take more than exotically cooked fish to make Bolobolo a proper man. The book tells a magical but contemporary romance. It paints a colourful picture of those in the heroine’s block of flats including the fat concierge whose husband no longer loves her and Top Floor Tantrum.
An absolutely charming and enchanting story and the reader will wonder what else Aissatou will cook next to get Bolobolo where she wants him to be. But in the end, it is not food that keeps him to her.
Whether they like a sexy love story or not, all celebrity cooks will do well to rethink their repertoire of recipes. It will certainly extend their range but will it include boa in banana leaves or crocodile in tchobi sauce?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Calixthe Beyala came to France in 1978 from the Cameroons. She has published over 15 books.
Calixthe Beyala is a distinctive voice in France. Her books include:
C’est le Soleil qui m’a brulee (It’s the sun that’s burned me).
Lettre d’une africaine a ses soeurs occidentals (A letter from an African woman to her western sisters).
Maman a un amant (Mother has a lover ) won the Grand Prix Litteraire de l’Afrique Noire.
Honneurs Perdu (Lost Honours) won the Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise.
Asséze l’Africaine won the Francois Mauriac Prixe of that same prestigious academy.
PRAISE FOR HOW TO COOK YOUR HUSBAND THE AFRICAN WAY
'Tender, hilarious, moving...' Elle
'Calixthe Beyala is cooking with gas.' Le Soir
'...a smooth blend of love and laughter. [Beyala's] beautiful prose lilts like an African dance...This is a magical, universal woman, who feigns submission only as a means to an end.' Est Republicain
The heroine, Aissatou, wants a husband who is also a lover. Remembering her mother’s wisdom and the traditions of Africa, she sets out to cook her way to his heart. But it will take more than exotically cooked fish to make Bolobolo a proper man. The book tells a magical but contemporary romance. It paints a colourful picture of those in the heroine’s block of flats including the fat concierge whose husband no longer loves her and Top Floor Tantrum.
An absolutely charming and enchanting story and the reader will wonder what else Aissatou will cook next to get Bolobolo where she wants him to be. But in the end, it is not food that keeps him to her.
Whether they like a sexy love story or not, all celebrity cooks will do well to rethink their repertoire of recipes. It will certainly extend their range but will it include boa in banana leaves or crocodile in tchobi sauce?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Calixthe Beyala came to France in 1978 from the Cameroons. She has published over 15 books.
Calixthe Beyala is a distinctive voice in France. Her books include:
C’est le Soleil qui m’a brulee (It’s the sun that’s burned me).
Lettre d’une africaine a ses soeurs occidentals (A letter from an African woman to her western sisters).
Maman a un amant (Mother has a lover ) won the Grand Prix Litteraire de l’Afrique Noire.
Honneurs Perdu (Lost Honours) won the Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise.
Asséze l’Africaine won the Francois Mauriac Prixe of that same prestigious academy.
PRAISE FOR HOW TO COOK YOUR HUSBAND THE AFRICAN WAY
'Tender, hilarious, moving...' Elle
'Calixthe Beyala is cooking with gas.' Le Soir
'...a smooth blend of love and laughter. [Beyala's] beautiful prose lilts like an African dance...This is a magical, universal woman, who feigns submission only as a means to an end.' Est Republicain
