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Butter : A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Yuzuki, Asako [Paperback]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100063236419

ISBN-139780063236417

eBay Product ID (ePID)4067507817

Product Key Features

Book TitleButter : a Novel of Food and Murder

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, Literary

Publication Year2024

GenreFiction

AuthorAsako Yuzuki

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"[Asako] Yuzuki takes a thrilling look into female relationships, revealing the complex nature of modern-day social conventions pertaining to a woman's appearance and her place in the home, and enriching the proceedings with mouthwatering descriptions of food. Like the meals Yuzuki describes, this leaves the reader satiated." -- Publishers Weekly "The novel cleverly intertwines paeans to the pleasures of eating with indictments of Japan's standards for women." -- New Yorker "An unputdownable, breathtakingly original novel about true crime, loneliness and female appetite in all its tricky, transgressive glory. I will be spoon-feeding Butter to every woman I know." -- Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key "A delectable meditation on appetite, fatphobia and misogyny in modern Japan - Butter is a salty morsel with one hell of a bite." -- Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller "An intriguing and unusual novel with a fresh perspective [that] defies categorization: part psychological exploration of misogyny and fatphobia, part social commentary on contemporary Japan and the roles and expectations of the women who live there." -- Library Journal Advance Reviews "Ambitious and unsettling ... a thought-provoking and surprisingly feelgood take on friendship, transgressive pleasures, and society's impossibly contradictory expectations of women." -- Guardian "Exuberant, indulgent romp of a novel ... Butter is a full-fat, Michelin-starred treat that moves seamlessly between an Angry Young Woman narrative and an engrossing detective drama and back again. Yuzuki has crafted an almost Dickensian cast of fleshy characters, with just as many surprise connections ... Let this book bring you under its spell." -- The Times (UK) "It'll make your mouth water." -- Irish Independent

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal895.636

SynopsisThe cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination, but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew, and Kajii can't resist writing back. Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a master class in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii, but it seems that Rika might be the one changing. Do she and Kajii have more in common than she once thought? Inspired by the real case of a convicted con woman and serial killer--the "Konkatsu Killer"--Asako Yuzuki's Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance, and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.