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Results for 'asako yuzuki'
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Butter
'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki’s new novel Butter … contains delicious descriptions' Nigel Slater, Guardian Feast newsletter 'A deliciously dark tale … examining power and greed through a feminist lens. Yuzuki has created a cult phenomenom' iNews ‘Exuberant, indulgent romp of a novel … Butter is a full-fat, Michelin-starred treat … Let this book bring you under its spell’ Sunday Times ‘Readers around the world are finding themselves utterly captivated’ Daily Mail ‘A unique and, at times, unsettling read … Butter holds countless surprises … you’ll be craving rice, butter and soy sauce in no time’ Stylist 'It isn’t entirely clear whether to read the novel or devour it’ Observer ‘Ambitious and unsettling … a thought-provoking and surprisingly feelgood take on friendship, transgressive pleasures, and society’s impossibly contradictory expectations of women’ Guardian 'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable … Butter will churn your brain and your stomach with panache’ Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? ‘An unputdownable, breathtakingly original novel … I will be spoon-feeding Butter to every woman I know’ Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key 'I devoured this dark and delicious novel' Imogen Crimp, author of A Very Nice Girl ‘A delectable meditation on appetite, fatphobia and misogyny in modern Japan … a salty morsel with one hell of a bite’ Alice Slater, author of Death of A Bookseller ‘A biting satire on fat-shaming culture and double standards in beauty’ Financial Times ‘The perfect mix of crime thriller, twisted feminist fantasy and gourmet cooking – what more could you want?’ Independent ‘Cleverly intertwines paeans to the pleasures of eating with indictments of Japan’s standards for women’ New Yorker ‘A heady serving of food culture and feminism … Yuzuki goes beyond the typical crime narrative’ Japan Times ‘A delicious novel’ i-D 'It'll make your mouth water' Irish Independent
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Normal People
The multimillion copy bestsellerSally Rooney set the books world buzzing in 2017 with her debut Conversations With Friends; Normal People is a girl-meets-boy story with a difference, interrogating the difficulties of sincere communication in a complicated, post-ironic world.
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Hooked
Praise for Hooked:
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Plant Lady
Minyoung Kang (Author) Minyoung Kang is a writer and editor-in-chief of film magazine CAST. Her publications include the novel Don’t Let me Freeze Up, Please and the essay collection Ride a Bicycle and Keep Going. She also publishes short stories on the popular Korean e-book platform, RIDIBooks. She lives in Korea.Shanna Tan (Translator) Shanna Tan is a literary translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese into English. Her translations include the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum. Born and raised in Singapore, she is currently spending some time in Bangkok.
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Fundamentally
Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for FictionA laugh-out-loud, unforgettable novel about ISIS brides, by debut author Nussaibah Younis
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Mari the Unwonderful Witch
Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers for her story, Forget Me, Not Blue, which appeared in her debut, Shuuten No Anoko, published in 2010.She won the Yamamoto Shugoro Award in 2015 for Nile Perch No Joshikai. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoko Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film.
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A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang
Thought-provoking and uplifting
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Wildcat Dome
A brilliantly layered commentary on postwar Japan... despite the grave subject matter, the novel’s tone, preserved faithfully in Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda’s expert translation, is gentle and warm, suggesting the author’s abundant optimism for human adaptability
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What Am I, A Deer?
Polly Barton’s bitingly funny debut novel follows a young woman set on reinvention after moving to a new city. Traversed by violent crushes and a karaoke obsession, What Am I, A Deer? acutely captures the paradoxes and pitfalls of young adulthood in deliriously self-conscious, propulsive prose.
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She's Always Hungry
'Playful, sometimes depraved and often laugh-out-loud funny' Colin WalshCan any of them be sated?Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humour, Eliza Clark's debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.'A firecracker of a book.' GuardianWhat readers are saying: 'Eliza Clark's writing is phenomenal .
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Sweet Bean Paste
The International BestsellerA charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan
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Swallows
Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, Swallows is an acerbic, witty vision of contemporary Japan by Natsuo Kirino, acclaimed author of the smash hit Out
€ 21,95