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The Last Chinese Chef
Finalist, Kiriyama Prize
Winner, World Gourmand Cookbook Award
1st place in the U.S. and 3rd place worldwide as the best Chinese cookbook of 2007
Book Sense Pick
Excerpted by Gourmet Magazine
Lost in Translation
 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best work of fiction by an American woman
Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association Annual Book Award
New York Times Notable Book
New York Times Editor’s Choice
Book Sense Pick
Starred Reviews in Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly
Main seasonal selection of France Loisirs, the French Book of the Month Club.
“The author of this first novel herself spent considerable time in China, and she conveys with poignant élan the trance of unrequited love for the exotic.”
-The New Yorker
“A gripping story… an engrossing narrative of adventure and desire.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“Luminous… thought-provoking… undeniably entertaining.”
-The New York Times Book Review
“Alice Mannegan is a terrific character – edgy, shrewd, and deeply wounded… A satisfying romp through alien landscapes: China, the past, human love.”
-The Washington Post Book World
“A gripping yarn with an exotic backdrop. It’s also a luscious love story, a political thriller, and a close up of a China that is changing almost day by day.”
-Associated Press
A Cup of Light
Top Ten Book Sense Pick
“A delightful novel.”
-Los Angeles Times
“Magnetic storytelling…A Cup of Light has the rare distinction of bringing together an entertaining sequence of just-suspenseful-enough events with writing that is both spare and lyrical.” -The Seattle Times
“A page-turner that leads us into a closed, sometimes clandestine world… Mones’ talent for intrigue runneth over.” -The Dallas Morning News
“American Nicole Mones has worked and traveled in China for more than 20 years, and her knowledge of the country illuminates every page of A Cup of Light… Mones weaves these many threads into a seamless whole, using pure and brilliant prose.”
-Bookpage
“Mones’ informed perspective on Chinese culture gives substance to what is already an aesthetically brilliant piece of art in itself.” -The Asian Reporter
“An excellent novel with a likable heroine immersed in an exotic world of smugglers, forgers, and mysterious collectors. An attractive blend of detective fiction and romance, enriched by considerable erudition concerning Imperial Chinese art.”
-The Age (Melbourne)
“Mones’ knowledge of porcelain is vast, but is worn lightly. Themes of desire and possession, and characters tested by their suffering and loss within those desires, make this novel compelling.” -Sydney Morning Herald
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