Richard C Morais: 3 books

“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through intoxicating...

“A vivid portrait of faith lost and found through the eyes of a Japanese Buddhist monk in America” (Shelf Awareness) as he makes his way from an isolated monastery in Japan to the bustling streets of Brooklyn, New York. Seido Oda spent his boyhood in a small mountainside village in rural...

Hassan Haji, secondogenito di sei figli, è nato sopra il ristorante di suo nonno, in Napean Sea Road a Bombay, vent’anni prima che fosse ribattezzata Mumbai. Ed è cresciuto guardando la figura esile di sua nonna che sfrecciava a piedi nudi sul pavimento di terra battuta della cucina, passava svelta...