Woman, Eating

Produktbeschreibung

A Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST<BR><BR>'Witty and thought-provoking' Stylist<BR>'Blistering' Glamour<BR>'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' Guardian<BR>'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki<BR>'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' The Times<BR>'A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking' Observer<BR><BR>Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi and ramen, onigiri and udon - the food her Japanese father liked to eat - but the only thing she can digest is blood. Yet Lydia can't bring herself to prey on humans, and sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her Malaysian-British mother for the first time and trying to build a career as an artist - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.<BR><BR>If Lydia is to find a way to exist in the world, she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans. Before any of this, however, she must eat.<BR><BR>'It's Kohda's exploration of Lydia's inner world, the pain and longing she feels as an outsider, that makes Woman, Eating such a delicious novel' New York Times Book Review<BR><BR>'A profound meditation on alienation and appetite, and what it means to be a young woman who experiences life at an acute level of intensity and awareness' LISA HARDING<BR><BR>'What Stoker did for the vampire at the end of the nineteenth century, Claire Kohda does for for it in our own era' TLS