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.

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Product details

• Authors: C Pam Zhang
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.07.2024
• EAN: 9781804945285
• ISBN: 978-1-80494-528-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); London, Greater London, FICTION / City Life, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, Science fiction: near future