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Nicole Mones
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Nicole Mones is the author of the New York Times Notable Book, Lost In Translation and A Cup of Light.
She started a textile business in China at the end of the Cultural Revolution and ran it for eighteen years, and she brings to her fiction writing an in-depth understanding of China and its culture. Mones is a frequent contributor to Gourmet magazine, which ran an excerpt of The Last Chinese Chef - marking the first time Gourmet has ever published fiction in its pages. She lives in Portland, Oregan.
Book List in Order: 4 titles
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Lost in Translation
- Aug-1998
- / Action Adventure
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At dawn in Beijing, Alice Mannegan pedals a bicycle through the deserted streets. An American by birth, she spends her nights in Beijing's smoke-filled bars, and the Chinese men she so desires never misunderstand her intentions. All around her rushes...
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A Cup of Light
- Mar-2002
- / Suspense
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As an American appraiser of fine Chinese porcelain, Lia Frank holds fragile beauty in her hands, examines priceless treasure with a magnifying lens. But when Lia looks in the mirror, she sees the flaws in herself, a woman wary of love, cut off from t...
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The Last Chinese Chef
- May-2007
- / General Fiction
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In her satisfying, sensual third novel, Nicole Mones takes readers inside the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China through the story of an American food writer in Beijing. When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a c...
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Night in Shanghai
- Mar-2014
- / Historical
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Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical piano pieces he was trained to play to the toe-tappin...