Book description
The Devil's Larder is a novel in sixty-four parts, exploring our
deepest human concerns - love, hate, hopes and desires - through our
relationship with food. Packed with delightful and subversive
ingredients, with behaviour more suited to the bedroom than to the
table, and with the most curious and idosyncratic of diners, this is a
sensuous portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of
passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes.
'Delicious . . . the sheer quantity of inventiveness is astounding' Mail
on Sunday 'Funny, frightening and erotic' The Times
Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia,
Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year;
shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book
Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His
novels have been translated into twenty-six languages. In 1999 Jim
Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
