Skinny Legs and All

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel spins, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art...

Un arab si un evreu deschid impreuna un restaurant vizavi de Natiunile Unite... Suna ca inceputul unei glume etnice, dar este axa in jurul careia se invarte acest roman curajos, amuzant si alarmant de provocator, in care o conserva de boabe filozofeaza, o lingura de desert mistifica, o tanara chelnerita abordeaza arta newyorkeza...