num_pages: 436
description: A love story wrapped in a murder mystery.Jeremy Papier is a Vancouver chef and restaurateur who owns a bistro called The Monkey's Paw. The novel uses a "Bloods vs. Crips" metaphor for the philosophical conflict between chefs such as Papier, who favour local ingredients and menus, and those such as his nemesis Dante Beale, who favour a hip, globalized, "post-national" fusion cuisine.Papier also endures conflict with his father, an anthropologist studying homelessness in Vancouver's Stanley Park, who draws him into investigating the death of two children in the park.
language: English
title: Stanley Park
titlecomplete: Stanley Park
genres: Canada, Unfinished, Canadian Literature, Book Club, Literary Fiction, Novels, Food, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2202
places: Vancouver, British Columbia
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Counterpoint