Product Description: A thriller and love story that has gripped readers across Europe, filled with culinary exploits and sexual adventures, and includes 16 recipes As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich's leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: El cocinero / The CookAuthor: Suter, MartinPublisher: Random House MondadoriPublication Date: 2011/04/03Number of Pages: 316Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:

Product Description: Sonia Frey fears for her sanity. Her marriage ended in divorce after her husband tried to kill her, and an acid trip has disordered her senses-she can now ""feel"" smells and ""see"" sounds. To escape her immediate situation she has moved to a remote Alpine village, where a series of unusual events throws her into further turmoil...read more

The moving story of a man, drawn back into his past by an illness that robs him of his sense of the present. Konrad Lang, a man in his sixties, is hunted by images of his early childhood, while he forgets his immediate past. The fading gentleman is pulled back towards the villa of his adoptive "family", the Kochs. Konrad grew up with Thomas Koch, the rich and spoiled heir to the family's fortune. He was Thomas's playmate and increasingly became the family's whipping-boy and now the Kochs don't want to know. Except for Elvira Senn, the all-powerful matriarch, who becomes increasingly worried by Konrad's flashbacks. Simone, the newcomer to the family, takes pity on Konrad and threatens to uncover secrets the family would like to see hidden forever.