Masło with delivery to Ireland

An unrestrained love of butter, a culinary challenge between a serial killer and a young reporter, and… a few kilos more. A culinary emancipation in the Japanese version of The Silence of the Lambs. "There are two things I cannot tolerate, however: feminism and margarine." Manako Kajii, an exquisite cook and the author of a popular blog about luxury cuisine, is being held in a detention centre in Tokyo. She has been accused of murdering three lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her culinary sophistication. The case fascinates the public, but the detainee stubbornly refuses contact with the media and accepts no visitors. However, when a young journalist, Rika Machida, asks her for a recipe for beef stew, she decides to make an exception. Rika, the only woman on the editorial team of "Tygodnik Shumei", works late every evening, and her dinners are most often instant ramen in a cup. Meanwhile, her meetings with Manako, to whom she promised conversations solely about food and cooking, begin to resemble a professional cookery course more than a reporter's investigation. Rika is changing. With every new meal something awakens in her body, and her purely professional interest turns into a strange fascination. Inspired by the true story of the "Konkatsu Killer", Asako Yuzuki's novel became a literary sensation in Japan and abroad. Masło is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession and the transgressive pleasures of eating in a country where women must always please men, and never themselves. "I devoured this novel." Nigel Slater "A rich, buttery Michelin-starred treat." "The Times" "Simply brilliant!" INEWS