Land of Milk and Honey

Paperback / softback. New. <p><b>A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world</b><br /><br />'A <b>rich </b>novel of ideas' <b>GUARDIAN</b><br />'A <b>tasty </b>treat' <b>iNEWS</b><br />'A <b>genius </b>balance of <b>page-turning</b> and <b>lyrical </b>prose' <b>INDEPENDENT</b><br />'<b>A sharp, sensual piece of art</b>. When I read I'm always searching for pleasure, for the want, and this book helped me feel something' <b>RAVEN LEILANI</b><br />'It's rare to read anything that feels this unique.<b> A richly imagined, ambitious, and haunting novel' GABRIELLE ZEVIN<br />'Truly exceptional' ROXANE GAY</b><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in alluring language, <i>Land of Milk and Honey</i> is a striking novel about food, sex and the intricacies of desire and longing.<br /><br />Praise for C Pam Zhang:<br /><b>'A blazing writer' Daisy Johnson<br />'Truly gifted' Sebastian Barry<br />'An arrestingly original writer' <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>