
Author
Asako Yuzuki
Japanese novelist and Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize winner whose 2017 novel Butter became Waterstones Book of the Year 2024 in English translation
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Food-crime fiction, Japanese literary fictionKnown for
Asako Yuzuki is a Japanese writer. She has won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, she has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio, and film.
Born1981 · Tokyo, Japan
Notable works
Butter
HonoursYamamoto Shūgorō Prize · Waterstones Book of the Year 2024

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Butter
A darkly rich Japanese novel following a journalist who interviews a woman accused of luring men to their deaths through her extraordinary cooking.
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