Land of Milk and Honey
by C Pam Zhang
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Pub Date 28 Sep 2023 | Archive Date 5 Oct 2023
Random House UK, Cornerstone | Hutchinson Heinemann
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Description
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.
Praise for C Pam Zhang:
'A blazing writer' Daisy Johnson
'Truly gifted' Sebastian Barry
'An arrestingly original writer' Sunday Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781529153668 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 176 |
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Featured Reviews
Sarah B, Reviewer
What an extraordinary book this is, it’s an accomplished feet of poetry and storytelling I loved it
The story is set in the world of Climate disaster where right at the start an American cook stuck in uk seeks a way out of her predicament. She Takes a job as a chef in a unextraordinary compound run by a man and his daughter who, through genetic engineering, are attempting to prevent animals from becoming extinct. The excesses of the world as seen through the eyes of the greedy consumerism of the people living in this mountain country. The comparison of the lovers of rich French cuisine, and of eating unusual Bush meat shows clear parallels between the way we miss treat our planet. The comparison is cleverly and subtly done. You start to really hate the inhabitants of this mountain kingdom.
The author has a very unique writing style, darkly, poetic and evocative .
The micro flashforwards are very clever hinting of a world after the end of the world scenario where the majority of the book is set
I love the end, I hadn’t really predicted that the story would end in this way. Particularly at the very end, the list of the joys in the old narrators life was so six synced and perfectly describes, they brought tears to my eyes
There has come the time that every literary author is writing his or her Climate Change novel, and this is quite remarkable one. Probably the best I’ve read so far.
I read an early copy of the book on NetGalley, UK. Published in the UK on the 20th of September 2023 by Random House UK Cornerstone.
This review will appear on on Goodreads, NetGalley, UK, and my book blog bionicSarahsbooks.wordpress.com
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