Land of Milk and Honey

A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world ''A rich novel of ideas'' GUARDIAN ''A tasty treat'' iNEWS ''A genius balance of page-turning and lyrical prose'' INDEPENDENT '' A sharp, sensual piece of art . When I read I''m always searching for pleasure, for the want, and this book helped me feel something'' RAVEN LEILANI ''It''s rare to read anything that feels this unique. A richly imagined, ambitious, and haunting novel'' GABRIELLE ZEVIN ''Truly exceptional'' ROXANE GAY A smog has spread. Food crops are disappearing. A chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world''s troubles. There, her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and seductive violence, the chef''s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in alluring language, Land of Milk and Honey is a striking novel about food, sex and the intricacies of desire and longing.

Autorentext
Born in Beijing, C Pam Zhang is mostly an artifact of the United States. She is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, longlisted for for the Booker Prize, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and one of Barack Obama's favourite books of the year. Zhang's writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, McSweeney's Quarterly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.

Zusammenfassung
Truly superb Douglas Stuart