DINNER WITH EDWARD: THE STORY OF AN UNEXPECTED FRIENDSHIP
Book ID/图书代码： 00342515B82865
English Summary/英文概要： When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping Edward’s daughter—who lives far away and asked Isabel to check in on her 93-year-old father in New York—Isabel has no idea that the man in the kitchen baking the sublime roast chicken and light-as-air apricot soufflé will end up changing her life.
As Edward and Isabel meet weekly for the glorious dinners that Edward prepares, he shares much more than his method for making apple galette or the perfect martini. Edward is teaching Isabel the luxury of slowing down and taking the time to think through everything she does, to deconstruct her own life, cutting it back to the bone and examining the guts, no matter how messy that proves to be. And as this charming, elegant, cultured man becomes her dear friend, Isabel gives him a reason to go on without his beloved wife of 72 years, and Edward gives her a renewed faith that happiness is possible. Like Edward’s meals, the whole adds up to much more than the ingredients.
Dinner with Edward is a book about sorrow and joy, love and nourishment, and about how dinner with a friend can, in the words of M. F. K. Fisher, “sustain us against the hungers of the world.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 伊莎贝尔遇到爱德华的时候，两人都正面对着人生的交叉路：他一心只想追随逝去的爱妻，而她已经做好准备，打算从此放弃爱情。她以为，自己只不过是给爱德华远方的女儿帮个忙，偶尔去探望一下这位在纽约独居的耄耋老人，可万万没想到的是，这位做得一手超美味烤鸡和空气般轻盈的杏子舒芙蕾的老先生，竟然改变了她的人生。
每周一次，爱德华亲手烹制一道道精美的料理，与伊莎贝尔相约在晚餐桌前。他教她烤苹果挞，调制完美的马提尼，甚至告诉她为整只家禽去骨的秘诀。但他分享的还远不止这些。
其实，他是在教她享受慢下来的奢侈，让她别着急，把做的每件事都彻底想清楚；他教她解构自己的生活，要透彻至骨，深及肺腑，无论眼前的一切有多么凌乱不堪。
《与爱德华共进晚餐》讲述了一个爱与滋养的故事，这本书也让我们看到，朋友间的一顿顿晚餐具有怎样的魔力。用M.F.K.费雪的话说就是，“帮助我们对抗这世间的难。”(DB)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 伊莎贝尔•文森特是《纽约邮报》的一名记者，曾担任驻里约热内卢通讯员，参与过科索沃战争的报道。她的文章曾发表在世界各大杂志及新闻媒体上，其中包括《纽约客》《纽约时报》和《时代》等。其书籍作品有《Gilded Lily: Lily Safra》《Bodies and Souls》（获加拿大国家犹太图书奖），《Hitler’s Silent Partners》（获Yad Vashem大屠杀历史类奖）， 以及《See No Evil》。
《与爱德华共进晚餐》根据伊莎贝尔的真实经历写成，生活中的爱德华高中毕业后来到纽约，七十多岁时开始自学烹饪。他热爱生活，自己做家具，喜欢钻研美食。他所做的一切都优雅有序又充满仪式感。
在匆忙的都市中，人们已经逐渐抛弃了烹饪的艺术、写信的艺术、缝纫的艺术，也失去了享受它们的乐趣。当我们再次捡拾起这些宝贵的生活技能，会发...
Isabel Vincent is an investigative reporter for the New York Post. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro and before that she covered the conflicts that led to the war in Kosovo. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers all over the world, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, L’Officiel, and Time. She is the author of four books: Gilded Lily: Lily Safra; Bodies and Souls; Hitler’s Silent Partners, and See No Evil. A recipient of the Canadian Association of Journalists’s Award, Canada’s National Jewish Book Award, and the Yad Vashem Award for Holocaust History, Vincent speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese. She lives in New York.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：DINNER WITH EDWARD is now sold in 6 territories:
Italian sold to Garzanti at auction
ANZ sold to Affirm Press
Chinese Traditional sold to Crown / Ping’s
Danish sold to Bazar
Hebrew sold to Armchair Books
Romanian sold to RAO
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