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An erotically charged elegantly written novel that marks the first publicationin English of author KyungRan Jo a literary star in Korea who has earnedcomparisons to Haruki Murakami. Emotionally raw and emphatically sensualTongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance and a womansculinary journey toward selfrestoration and revenge. When her boyfriend ofseven years leaves her for another woman the celebrated young chef Jung Jiwonshuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deepdepression losing her will to cook her desire to eat and even her ability totaste. Returning to the kitchen of the I talian restaurant where her careerfirst began she slowly rebuilds her life rediscovering her appreciation offood both as nourishment and as sensual pleasure. She also starts to devise aplan for a final vengeful act of culinary seduction. Tongue is avoluptuous intimate story of a gourmet relying on her foodcentric worldviewto emerge from heartbreak a mesmerizing delicately plotted novel at onceshocking and profoundly familiar. «
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