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 nov…
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 130mm x 199mm |
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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 *Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest whose books have garnered international acclaim.
Her first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries.
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