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    The Birdwoman's Palate
    The Birdwoman's Palate
    The Birdwoman's Palate
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Birdwoman's Palate

    Written by Laksmi Pamuntjak

    Narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In this exhilarating culinary novel, a woman’s road trip through Indonesia becomes a discovery of friendship, self, and other rare delicacies.

    Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when Aruna is asked to research a handful of isolated bird flu cases reported across Indonesia. While it’s put a crimp in her aunt’s West Java farm, and made her own confit de canard highly questionable, the investigation does provide an irresistible opportunity.

    It’s the perfect excuse to get away from corrupt and corrosive Jakarta and explore the spices of the far-flung regions of the islands with her three friends: a celebrity chef, a globe-trotting “foodist,” and her coworker Farish.

    From Medan to Surabaya, Palembang to Pontianak, Aruna and her friends have their fill of local cuisine. With every delicious dish, she discovers there’s so much more to food, politics, and friendship. Now, this liberating new perspective on her country—and on her life—will push her to pursue the things she’s only dreamed of doing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    TranslatorTiffany Tsao
    Release dateFeb 1, 2018
    ISBN9781543630282
    The Birdwoman's Palate
    Author

    Laksmi Pamuntjak

    Laksmi Pamuntjak is an award-winning Indonesian novelist, poet, food writer, and journalist. Her debut novel, Amba, won Germany’s LiBeraturpreis, was short-listed for the 2012 Khatulistiwa Literary Award, and appeared on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Top 8 list of the best books of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015. She is also the author of two collections of poetry and five editions of the bestselling and award-winning Jakarta Good Food Guide, and she has served as translator for Indonesian poet and essayist Goenawan Mohamad. Cofounder of Jakarta’s Aksara Bookstore, Pamuntjak was selected as the Indonesian representative for Poetry Parnassus at the 2012 London Olympics. She currently divides her time between Berlin and Jakarta. Visit the author at www.laksmipamuntjak.com.

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      I think this novel could be good if it focused on one thing, but sadly it tries to be all things at the same time and failed at all of them. The story is about a 30 something single lady who found love as she traveled Indonesia for work (and somehow grouped this trip with a culinary trip with friends), with that main theme in mind, it is then added with of philosophical discussions, psychological dreams, hints of corruptions in the country, and a possible bird-flu outbreak. The premise is interesting, the food descriptions are excellent… the romance and politics and everything else felt forced. As I said, it tries to be too hard to wow the reader and just felt messy. Still an easy read that I managed to finish so it’s 3 stars for me.

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