The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Wie schmeckt Traurigkeit? Wie Schuldgefühle? Und wie die erste große Liebe? Ein zauberhafter Roman über ein junges Mädchen - und ihre Gabe, die Gefühle der anderen zu schmecken.

Informationen zum Autor Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own ; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master . Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext On the eve of her ninth birthday Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon-chocolate cake and to her horror discovers that she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. Suddenly food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed by any meal - truths about her mother's life outside the home! her father's strange detachment and her brother's clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up! she realises there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE is a luminous tale about the heartbreak of loving those whom you know too much about. Zusammenfassung _On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice.

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The unforgettable bestselling story of a girl whose magical gift becomes a devastating curse

Auteur
Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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On the eve of her ninth birthday Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon-chocolate cake and to her horror discovers that she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. Suddenly food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed by any meal - truths about her mother's life outside the home, her father's strange detachment and her brother's clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up, she realises there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE is a luminous tale about the heartbreak of loving those whom you know too much about.

Résumé
_On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice.