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Tongue

About the Books

Title Sub
A Novel
Author
Kyung-Ran Jo
Co-Author
-
Translator
Chi-Young Kim
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Published Year
2009
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Hyeo
ISBN
9781596916517
Page
212
Volume

About the Author

  • Kyung Ran
  • Birth : 1969 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kyung Ran
  • Family Name : Jo
  • Korean Name : 조경란
  • ISNI : 0000000038827944
  • Works : 19
About the Original Work
  • Author : Kyung Ran
  • Published Year : 2007
  • English Title : Tongue
More About the Original Work
Descriptions
  • English(English)

An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English of author Kyung-Ran Jo, a literary star in Korea who has earned comparisons to Haruki Murakami.

Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance and a woman's culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deep depression, losing her will to cook, her desire to eat, and even her ability to taste. Returning to the kitchen of the I talian restaurant where her career first began, she slowly rebuilds her life, rediscovering her appreciation of food, both as nourishment and as sensual pleasure. She also starts to devise a plan for a final, vengeful act of culinary seduction.

Tongue is a voluptuous, intimate story of a gourmet relying on her food-centric worldview to emerge from heartbreak; a mesmerizing, delicately plotted novel at once shocking and profoundly familiar.

Source : https://www.amazon.com/dp/1596916516

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    Tongue
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