Summary
When documentary maker Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavoury truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. And the battle with ‘big beef’ will be on in earnest.
Ruth Ozeki’s much-loved debut novel, winn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922147530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922147532 |
| Author: | Ruth Ozeki |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 199mm x 130mm |
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Critics Review
‘Wonderfully wild and bracing…A feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next.’
‘Ruth Ozeki masks a deeper purpose a light tone…A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel.’ – Jane Smiley * Chicago Tribune *
‘A joy to read.’ * Elle *
‘Wonderfully wild and bracing…A feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next.’ * Newsweek *
‘Romance, agri-business, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding—it takes a talent like RuthOzeki’s to blend all these ingredients beautifully together. My Year of Meats is a sensitive and compelling portrait of two modern women.’
– Arthur Golden * author of Memoirs of a Geisha *About The Author
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She has lived in Japan, where among other things she worked as a bar hostess and studied flower arrangement, Noh drama and mask carving. Ruth practises Zen Buddhism and was ordained as a priest in 2010. She is the bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being and All Over Creation.
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