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Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2024
Nominated for the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year 2025
Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller
Selected by the BBC for the Between the Covers book club
“A complete, mouth-watering delight” - The Sunday Times
“I was glued to Asako Yuzuki’s new novel, Butter” - Nigel Slater
The beloved Japanese bestseller about a gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist trying to uncover her case, inspired by a true story and translated by Polly Barton.
The gourmet chef Manako Kajii is at the Tokyo Detention Center, convicted for the repeated murders of lonely businessmen, whom she allegedly seduced with her delicious homemade cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination, but Kajii refuses to speak to the press and does not accept visitors. Until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter requesting her recipe for beef stew, and Kajii cannot resist responding.
Rika, the only woman in the newsroom, works late into the night, rarely cooking anything more than ramen. As the visits between her and the steely Kajii evolve, they find themselves more in a masterclass of cooking than in journalistic investigation. Rika hopes that this gastronomic exchange will help soften Kajii, but it seems that perhaps she herself is the one changing. With each meal she eats, something awakens in her body; could it be that she and Kajii have more in common than she believed?
Inspired by the true case of the convicted con artist and serial killer, “The Konkatsu Killer,” Asako Yuzuki's Butter is a vibrant, subversive exploration of misogyny, obsession, romantic relationships, and the deviant pleasures of food in Japan.
“Exciting, pleasantly strange” - Pandora Sykes
"Scrumptious... I devoured it” - Imogen Crimp
“A savory piece with a terrible flavor” - Alice Slater
“Irreversible, subversively original” - Erin Kelly
“Nothing less than brilliant” - iNews
“Ambitious and subversive” - Guardian
“It’s not entirely clear whether one will read the novel or devour it” - Observer
Pages: 464, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm
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- Author
- Asako Giouzouki
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- Language
- English
- Type
- Crime
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- -
- Release Date
- 29/04/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Dimensions
- 1 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780008511715
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- Books Adapted to TV Series / Movies
- No
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