Tongue (Audible Audio Edition) KyungRan Jo Saskia Maarleveld ChiYoung Kim translator Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Books
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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 Italian 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.
Tongue (Audible Audio Edition) KyungRan Jo Saskia Maarleveld ChiYoung Kim translator Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Books
A little strange; a bit bizarre, but worth reading if you are a gourmand or like to cook and enjoy reading about the dark but sensual side of life. The protagonist is a cook and works in a top Italian restaurant in Seoul. You will dive deeply into what that is like -- in a kitchen in a top restaurant with the burden of producing an excellent meal every night. I love to cook so I loved that part of the book. The other part -- the cook's obsession with her boyfriend who left her for a model who was one of her students in a cooking class, is the bizarre part. On one hand, the writer does convey the hurt and pain of such a breakup but pairing that with the desire (or reality -- hard to know if what is described is imaginary) to hurt the new girlfriend and then prepare one of her body parts as a dish for the ex-boyfriend is not exactly an easy or even understandable read.Product details
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Tongue (Audible Audio Edition) KyungRan Jo Saskia Maarleveld ChiYoung Kim translator Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Books Reviews
WARNING HUGE SPOILER Very perverse tale of how a chef is grieving the loss of her architect boyfriend of seven years, who left her for one of her former students, a beautiful model. In grief, the chef closes down her cooking school, returns to work at the Italian restaurant she started at, and in the end, kidnaps the girlfriend, severs and serves her tongue to her ex-boyfriend. The book has these very beautiful, erotic anecdotes about food, spices and gourmands - how a true gourmand does not care about the pain inflicted on an animal as long as it preserves the taste; how you reject everything from a supplier so he will up the ante the next time; how basil is sad and saffron is happy; how personal a knife is to every chef. This book is in translation. It wasn't a pleasant read, nor was the story always inviting, but it was definitely interesting.
An excellent, dark read surrounding the world of gastronomy, love, and revenge. Most of the low reviews seem to be from people who were expecting a fluffy romantic/erotic novel or a wonderfully ethnic *translated* tale. This book isn't for the faint hearted.
Anyone who's gone through a bad breakup can relate to the protagonist on some level--people compare thinking about an ex to romantically shooting up a drug, relapsing into an addiction...it's a cycle that produces and is fueled by obsession. It's this same obsession that the protagonist takes into her cooking, to cope and to find her sense of taste again. This book is beautiful with its language and so aptly able to convey hurt, obsession, and passion. It makes you unsure if things are truly happening but along the way it's easy not to care what is 'real' because the read is so damn enjoyable.
Would highly recommend this book for those looking for a dark spin on food and language, and are fascinated by the nuances in life.
Characters weren't developed, I was disappointed. It's like if a dish looks so good but when you finally get to eat it, it's bland!!! what a let down ....
I love this book. Its a story that stays with you well after you have read it. The story of a woman looking to move on after losing her man to another woman. The protagonist lives for food, and so with the lose of a love she must rediscover love and food again. Rediscover how she fits in the world of food, and what her dreams are now that she is single.
It took a little time warming up to a somewhat self-indulgent protagonist and quite a lot of wallowing. The book has some beautifully written prose put forth in a simple yet impactful way.
I bought this for a friend who is moving to South Korea. I found it very difficult to find fiction about South Korea that was either contemporary, or about something other than conflict with North Korea. So when I came across this story, it seemed perfect. The chef protagonist is getting over a recent breakup, and the story explores how she rebuilds her life through food. It sounded almost like Eat, Pray, Love except through cooking! And with such a low price, I felt I couldn't go wrong.
While the author (and perhaps the translator?) certainly has a gift with words and description, that was one of only two things I enjoyed about the story. The second is the way that the narrator peppers the audience with little facts about the history of food. For example, while making tiramisu, Ji-won explains that it means "pull me up" in Italian, because of the effects of the expresso in it.
But sometimes these points went a little too far. I felt uncomfortable reading parts of the story... I didn't understand Ji-won's relationship with her mentor, which included a strange sexual/nonsexual? moment of body contact that came out of nowhere and had something to do with the mentor losing his daughter at a young age. I almost felt like that part could have been a story in itself, were it fleshed out and explained a little more.
Ji-won and her Chef mentor aside, there are few other characters. Her ex, the dog they shared, the ex's new girlfriend, Ji-won's uncle, and a friend of Ji-won's are really the only others. While her ex and his new girlfriend were obviously necessary, since this story is about Ji-won's life after the breakup, Ji-won's friend seemed unneeded. The uncle seemed only to be included as another link to family. Her grandmother is often mentioned as being the one who taught her how to cook, though the old woman passed away many years ago. Don't even get me started on the dog. All I'll say is that this is not the book for animal lovers, as the dog is continuously neglected.
To end, I have to say that I'm not sure who this book *is* for. Those who appreciate the delicacy and beauty of language may, since the writing is at times simply a pleasure to read. I want to say that those who enjoy food and cooking will enjoy it, especially since such a wide variety of foods and ingredients are mentioned throughout. But then again, sometimes one can take food a little too far, which Kyung Ran Jo's character does. I almost gave up reading it several times, but managed to stick it out and finish the entire book. Of course, now I feel the need to read something completely different--something with snappy dialogue and humor, with adventure or romance or action. All of which would be the opposite of "Tongue."
A little strange; a bit bizarre, but worth reading if you are a gourmand or like to cook and enjoy reading about the dark but sensual side of life. The protagonist is a cook and works in a top Italian restaurant in Seoul. You will dive deeply into what that is like -- in a kitchen in a top restaurant with the burden of producing an excellent meal every night. I love to cook so I loved that part of the book. The other part -- the cook's obsession with her boyfriend who left her for a model who was one of her students in a cooking class, is the bizarre part. On one hand, the writer does convey the hurt and pain of such a breakup but pairing that with the desire (or reality -- hard to know if what is described is imaginary) to hurt the new girlfriend and then prepare one of her body parts as a dish for the ex-boyfriend is not exactly an easy or even understandable read.
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