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Number of Pages
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Age Group
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Language
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Book Summary
This is a cultural non-fiction work that uses food and memory to illuminate a Himalayan borderland. Its central theme is how daily meals, rituals, and shared tables sustain communities amid frost, wind, and history. The intended reader is adults who love travel writing, culinary culture, and human stories, and the tone is intimate, contemplative, and hopeful.
Through a mosaic of voicesโfrom shepherds and monks to farmers and mothersโthe book blends memoir, travelogue, and cultural history. Readers are drawn into mountain kitchens and firesides where slow-simmered broths, rituals, and family memories reveal a tenderness often hidden beneath years of conflict. The narrative threads together landscapes, borderlines, and everyday cooking to offer a warm, sensory portrait of resilience.
After finishing, readers gain a nuanced understanding of how food preserves memory and identity, and how kindness and care in daily meals can sustain a community through hardship. It leaves a lasting impression of tenderness, curiosity, and a renewed respect for food as a thread that binds people and places.
Product Details
Author
Yash Saxena
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Number of Pages
272
Language
English
SKU
9780143476788
ISBN
9780143476788
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
19.2x2.1x23.2cm
Binding
Paperback
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