How could a virtually illiterate pizza chef have produced a literary and publishing bestseller without anyone, including his family knowing it? A young editor of a large French publisher and her writer lover dig into this conundrum with satisfyingly surprising results.
A young woman forced into monastic life turns what could be despair into triumph and brings with her a group of holy women whose lives she improves as she finds her own way to success and fulfillment.
Poverty, squalor and oppression cannot keep people from finding meaning and even happiness in the solace of the written word in this heartfelt story of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge purges. It is, in the end, a hopeful and inspiring book.