livro butter from yuzuki azako

Sinopse

• The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margari ne. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who 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 masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body, might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought? Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, "The Konkatsu Killer", Asako Yuzuki's Butter is a vivid, unsettli ng exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.

Dimensões LxAxP

• 1.28 x 1.98 x 0.137 cm

Encadernação

• CAPA MOLE

Nº de páginas

• 464

ISBN

• 9780008511715

Editora

• Fourth Estate

Data Lançamento

• 24-04-2025

Idioma

• Inglês

Autor

• Asako Yuzuki

Sobre o Autor

• Asako Yuzuki ( , Yuzuki Asako, born 1981) is a Japanese writer. She has won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers and the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize, she has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio, and film.

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