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One autumn in New York, a young Polish poet, studying literature, and a Brazilian anthropologist researching a new book, meet, fall in love and move into a tiny apartment together. Tereza has a lover waiting for her in Poland, Jose a wife and child in Sao Paulo, and it would seem this could only be the most temporary of affairs. Yet there emerges the mesmerizingly explicit portrait of a relationship conducted at the extreme edge of sensuality, defying conventional definition. With no common language, exiled from their culture, for each of them the body of the other becomes everything: spirituality, sustenance, almost unbearable pleasure. Breathtakingly erotic, intensely physical, profoundly intelligent, THE TASTE OF A MAN pursues a path traced by a love based on pure appetite with shameless and unflinching candour, to its ecstatic and terrible conclusion.
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The Taste of a Man, Slavenka Drakulić
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- Released
- 1998
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- Title
- The Taste of a Man
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Slavenka Drakulić
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 212
- ISBN10
- 0349108668
- ISBN13
- 9780349108667
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Religious Topics, Love, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Horror, Contemporary Romance, New York, Rape, Trauma, Exile, Despair, Madness, Obsession, Cannibalism, Warsaw
- Original title
- Božanska glad
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- One autumn in New York, a young Polish poet, studying literature, and a Brazilian anthropologist researching a new book, meet, fall in love and move into a tiny apartment together. Tereza has a lover waiting for her in Poland, Jose a wife and child in Sao Paulo, and it would seem this could only be the most temporary of affairs. Yet there emerges the mesmerizingly explicit portrait of a relationship conducted at the extreme edge of sensuality, defying conventional definition. With no common language, exiled from their culture, for each of them the body of the other becomes everything: spirituality, sustenance, almost unbearable pleasure. Breathtakingly erotic, intensely physical, profoundly intelligent, THE TASTE OF A MAN pursues a path traced by a love based on pure appetite with shameless and unflinching candour, to its ecstatic and terrible conclusion.