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My Year of Meats
Published 24 July 2013
ISBN 9781922147530
Format Paperback
Extent 528pp
AU Price $24.99
NZ Price $28.00

My Year of Meats

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Paperback
24 July 2013
EBook
7 Mar 2013
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When documentary maker Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavoury truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES.
Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. And the battle with 'big beef' will be on in earnest.
Ruth Ozeki's much-loved debut novel, winner of the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, represents the entertaining face of ecological activism. It will delight fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver.
Published 24 July 2013
ISBN 9781922147530
Format Paperback
Extent 528pp
AU Price $24.99
NZ Price $28.00

About the author

Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest whose books have garnered international acclaim. Her first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries.
portrait photo of Ruth Ozeki

Also by Ruth Ozeki

The Typing Lady
The Book of Form and Emptiness
A Tale for the Time Being
All Over Creation
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Praise for My Year of Meats

'Ruth Ozeki masks a deeper purpose a light tone...A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel.' Jane Smiley, Chicago Tribune

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'A joy to read.' Elle

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'Wonderfully wild and bracing...A feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next.' Newsweek

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'Romance, agri-business, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding—it takes a talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these ingredients beautifully together. My Year of Meats is a sensitive and compelling portrait of two modern women.' Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha

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