寫下一封致食物,致女性改變力量的情書。
- 最受矚目的新生代華裔美籍小說家C Pam Zhang。其初試啼聲之作《How Much of These Hills Is Gold》一鳴驚人,描繪淘金夢醒、華裔美國人被遺忘的一頁歷史,角逐布克獎、入圍美國筆會/海明威獎……等多項文壇大獎。
- 新作《Land of Milk and Honey》被《紐約時報》和《Kirkus Reviews》等書評媒體,選為今年最受期待的小說!
而她,卻在一連串的嘗試中,逐漸被推往慾望、欺騙、道德和試煉的核心……小說中各種感官的描寫,鋒利、誘人的語言,如同精緻的藝術品。這一場以文字推砌的盛宴,將喚醒讀者內心的渴望。(文/博客來外文館)
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, VULTURE, THE MILLIONS, KIRKUS AND MORE!
“One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year… fiendishly, deliciously fun.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“It’s rare to read anything that feels this unique.” –GABRIELLE ZEVIN, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
“Land of Milk and Honey is truly exceptional.”–ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist
“A sharp, sensual piece of art.”–RAVEN LEILANI, New York Times bestselling author of Luster
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasurealters her life and, indirectly, the world
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles.
There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. 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 cool, 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 language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.