Butter

The Cult Japanese Bestselling Novel & BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

A BBC 'BETWEEN THE COVERS' BOOK CLUB PICK

'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES

'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY

'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter' NIGEL SLATER

'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' THE TIMES

A thrilling novel about a convicted woman serial killer and chef, based on a true story. Butter follows journalist Rika Machida in her investigation of serial killer Manako Kajii, who is convicted of luring in wealthy men with her expensive cookery classes, only to seduce and murder them, taking their money before moving on to her next victim. Kajii refuses to cooperate with the press until Rika, at the suggestion of her kitchen-savvy friend Reiko, writes Kajii a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew. Butter is a vivid, panoramic exploration of misogyny, eating, obsession and romance in contemporary Japan. Based on the true story of Kanae Kijima, a serial killer and con woman known as "The Konkatsu Killer", Butter is a novel like no other: part psychological crime story, part exploration of the pressures on women''s lives in contemporary Japan and part meditation on the delicious pleasures, and societal pressures, associated with food.

Autorentext

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 Shgor 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.

Klappentext

A BBC 'BETWEEN THE COVERS' BOOK CLUB PICK

'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable'PANDORA SYKES

'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original'ERIN KELLY

'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter' NIGEL SLATER

'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat'*THE TIMES*

Zusammenfassung
'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY 'Delicious' i-D Magazine 'Luscious I devoured this' IMOGEN CRIMP