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C Pam Zhang
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Binding
Hardback
Number of Pages
240
Age Group
All
Language
English
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Book Summary
This is a literary fiction novel for adults, weaving together food, desire, and power into a sweeping, sensuous narrative. It follows a young chef whose discovery of pleasure upends her lifeโand, in surprising ways, alters the world around her. The intended reader is someone who loves richly textured prose and morally complex storytelling, offered in an immersive, intimate voice. The emotional tone is hypnotic, provocative, and contemplative.
Against a backdrop of smoky scarcity, she leaves London to take a job at a remote mountaintop enclave where a mysterious employer and his visionary daughter have built an opulent experiment in living and eating for a global elite. There, taste and touch become catalysts for awakening, forcing questions about loyalty, consequence, and the uses of abundance. As the narrative unfolds, the true aims of the project come into focus, revealing how a single life can ripple through culture and politics.
Written with lush, precise prose, the book reads like a hymn to food and sensation. The reading experience blends culinary craft with intimate emotion and social inquiry, inviting readers to follow through meals, conversations, and quiet moments of reflection. The story asks you to consider how appetite drives transformation and how personal choices intersect with larger systems of power.
After finishing, readers are left with a lasting meditation on how appetite shapes identity and societyโsparking curiosity about the pleasures and perils of abundance and prompting new ways of imagining change in the world.
Product Details
Author
C Pam Zhang
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Number of Pages
240
Language
English
SKU
9781804945285
ISBN
9781804945285
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
12.9x1.5x19.8cm
Binding
Hardback
MRP: โน 799
โน 760
โน 39 Off