Book 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. Slavenka Drakulic was born in
Croatia. Her three novels and three non-fiction titles have been
translated into many major European languages.
