{"product_id":"woman-eating-absolutely-brilliant-kohda-takes-the-vampire-trope-and-makes-it-her-own-ruth-ozeki","title":"Woman, Eating: 'Absolutely brilliant - Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own' Ruth Ozeki","description":"\u003cp\u003e***A Best Book of the Year in \u003ci\u003eHARPER'S BAZAAR\u003c\/i\u003e, BBC, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGLAMOUR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGAL-DEM\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHUFFPOST***\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Witty and thought-provoking' \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Blistering' \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi and ramen, onigiri and udon - the food her Japanese father liked to eat - but the only thing she can digest is blood. Yet Lydia can't bring herself to prey on humans, and sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her Malaysian-British mother for the first time and trying to build a career as an artist - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.If Lydia is to find a way to exist in the world, she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans. Before any of this, however, she must eat.\u003cb\u003e'It's Kohda's exploration of Lydia's inner world, the pain and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003elonging she feels as an outsider, that makes \u003ci\u003eWoman, Eating\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003esuch a delicious novel'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A profound meditation on alienation and appetite, and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ewhat it means to be a young woman who experiences life at\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ean acute level of intensity and awareness'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eLISA HARDING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What Stoker did for the vampire at the end of the nineteenth\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ecentury, Claire Kohda does for\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003efor it in our own era' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Little, Brown Book Group Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780349015613\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group Limited","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.00","offer_id":47910420840625,"sku":"SB-0349015619-C4","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0349015619.jpg?v=1789194411","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/woman-eating-absolutely-brilliant-kohda-takes-the-vampire-trope-and-makes-it-her-own-ruth-ozeki","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}