Author:Luis Fernando Verissimo
With the knowledge that every mouthful may be your last comes a special flavor, an added piquancy, that is hard to resist. Not for nothing is gluttony a deadly sin.
At first there were ten of them. Once the gilded youth of their city, they would meet each month to dine fabulously and celebrate their friendship and singularity. But 20 years on, the world is not as impressed with them as they anticipated. Indignant girlfriends, distrustful wives, bankruptcy, divorce and death have weakened their bond - until Daniel meets Lucidio. In his new friend Daniel thinks he has found the recipe to reinvigorate their meetings. Lucidio is mysteriously taciturn but in the privacy of Daniel's kitchen, his genius recreates their favourite dishes as a gastronomic experience like no other. One helping is never enough. Particularly for a group that have always wanted more ...
Brazil's blackest satirist's return to novel form from a ten-year sabbatical sold out back home inseconds. A quick flick through the opening tells you why; by then, you're hooked, played by the author's artful angling, gaffed and landed to gasp for more.
—— Brian Davis , Time OutHoward Jacobson is one of the funniest writers alive…his writing pulsates with nerve and edge; it is colossal in comic precision
—— Daily TelegraphHoward Jacobson is one of the funniest writers around... It's hard to imagine a more entertaining book
—— ObserverA very funny, very intelligent novel... How many of Jacobson's contemporaries have described the male condition with such wry, unsparing honesty?
—— Sunday TelegraphBrilliant and funny... No More Mr Nice Guy shows invention on every page, every paragraph. Jacobson is unique
—— Evening StandardImbued with heartbreak, grace and humour, this novel made me walk taller for days.
—— SheOne True Thing is a book about the very nature of love... and insight into the workings of the heart is what Anna Quindlen is so good at
—— TatlerWitty, profound... exhilarating
—— Margaret ForsterFiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.
—— Elle U.S.Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.
—— Los Angeles Times
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