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Tongue : a Novel by Jo, Kyung Ran; Kim, Chi-Young is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tongue : a Novel about?

An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English o f 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.

Who reads Tongue : a Novel?

Author

Jo, Kyung Ran; Kim, Chi-Young

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781608197811

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.33 / 5 (387 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14