A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.

A smog has spread, food is disappearing, and a chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony: an experiment in a new way of living and eating. There, her mysterious employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste and touch. Before long, she is pushed to discover the real nature of the project: a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the place.

Land of Milk and Honey is a striking novel about food, sex and the intricacies of desire.

PAM ZHANG

Born in Beijing, C Pam Zhang is mostly an artifact of the United States. She is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, longlisted for for the Booker Prize, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of the year. Zhang’s writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, McSweeney’s Quarterly, the New Yorker and the New York Times. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.