Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Aftertaste: Feast upon this year's most delicious debut novel: 'A fun romp through New York's food scene' Sunday Times

Autor Daria Lavelle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mai 2026

La prima vedere, Aftertaste pare a fi o incursiune efervescentă în universul gastronomic al New York-ului, o poveste despre ambiția unui bucătar de a cuceri metropola. Însă, pe măsură ce parcurgem paginile acestui debut semnat de Daria Lavelle, descoperim o atmosferă mult mai sumbră, unde aromele servesc drept punte către o lume a umbrelor care refuză să rămână tăcută. Subliniem aici o premisă pe cât de fascinantă, pe atât de neliniștitoare: Kostya, un simplu spălător de vase, descoperă că poate materializa spiritele celor morți gătindu-le rețetele preferate. Ceea ce începe ca un act de alinare se transformă rapid într-o amenințare la adresa echilibrului fragil dintre viață și moarte.

Observăm un ritm narativ care alternează între plăcerea senzorială a gustului și tensiunea psihologică a unei prezențe supranaturale constante. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Sweetbitter, deși infuzia de elemente horror și miza metafizică marchează o voce proprie, mult mai întunecată, a autoarei. Dacă în alte romane culinare mâncarea celebrează viața, aici ea devine un instrument de invocare și, uneori, de condamnare. Relația dintre Kostya și Maura, o femeie cu propriile legături oculte, adaugă o profunzime amară poveștii, forțând cititorul să se întrebe dacă dorința de a ne lua rămas-bun justifică perturbarea liniștii de dincolo. Bloomsbury Publishing ne propune o experiență de lectură densă, unde umorul negru maschează o meditație profundă despre pierdere și despre lucrurile care ne hrănesc cu adevărat sufletul, chiar și după ce inima încetează să mai bată.

Citește tot Restrânge

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526683991
ISBN-10: 1526683997
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 170 x 254 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută ceva dincolo de realismul magic convențional. Este o lectură ideală pentru cei care au savurat latura viscerală a bucătăriei în volume precum Sweetbitter, dar își doresc o doză consistentă de supranatural și horror. Veți câștiga o perspectivă inedită asupra doliului, servită într-un decor newyorkez vibrant și periculos, unde fiecare fel de mâncare are un preț spiritual.


Descriere

'A fun romp through New York's restaurant scene and the world of the undead' Sunday Times

Kostya is haunted. Still reeling from the loss of his father, he's working as a dishwasher when he discovers something extraordinary. The tastes that have flooded his mouth without warning since childhood - thin-skinned dumplings bursting with lightly sugared sour cherries - are being sent by spirits seeking closure and, by cooking their food, Kostya can bring them back for one last meal to find it.

Maura is moonlighting as a psychic when a man with curious talents enters her booth. She's the only one who understands what Kostya is really capable of - as well as the consequences of messing with the afterlife. And as Kostya and Maura fall deeply, irresistibly in love, the line between supporting his dreams and keeping her own ghosts at bay begins to blur.

While Kostya and his best friend, Frankie, work towards opening a New York restaurant with a unique menu and unprecedented clientele, Maura senses a supernatural catastrophe looming that could see them losing everything.

Recenzii

Debut author Daria Lavelle has distilled the tension of The Bear with the descriptive floweriness of Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer . A fun, thoughtful exploration of grief, love and the nature of hunger. Feast upon its pages
Part ghost story, part gastro romance
I savoured every minute reading this epic story about life, death, love and loss ... Original and addictive
A heart-warming read - a fascinating mix of food, romance and the supernatural
Food lovers will find a huge amount to enjoy here, as will anyone who enjoys ghost stories with a twist
Aftertaste is practically exploding with love, life and flavour. I relished every word
A wondrous work where the culinary transcends the ordinary. Lavelle's debut of grief, memory and loss is deftly and satisfyingly layered
Aftertaste is simply one of those books everyone's going to be talking about
A highly original, entertaining tour-de-force ... It had me in mind of The Ministry of Time, whose readers I think will love this
A raucously witty and entertaining novel. This expertly crafted, suspenseful tale is seasoned with a perfectly judged amount of the supernatural. The genuinely heartfelt, touching moments elevate Lavelle's writing to a level that is nigh on impossible to put down. Meanwhile, the lavish culinary descriptions are a real danger - do not read on an empty stomach!
Brilliantly constructed and wholly original, Aftertaste is like no novel you've ever tried before. It's much more than your usual dish - it's a whole literary tasting menu. Packed with ghosts, romance, fine dining and the mob, it will leave you stunned, thrilled and totally satiated
A hauntingly evocative journey through the realms of pain, pleasure and the power of food
[A] much anticipated darkly comic debut ... about food, ghosts and the New York culinary scene
A decadent debut that marks the arrival of a sparkling new voice. Dark and delicious, sincerely moving and at times laugh out loud funny, a heady, bittersweet, beautiful novel about life and death, grief and closure, passion and hunger. A must-read
A breathtaking novel. Combining the grit of the restaurant world with the magic of the afterlife, Daria Lavelle perfectly blends unexpected ingredients into a book you'll want to savour. It's a story about grief that's filled with humour, warmth and astounding creativity
This is a terrific book. Aftertaste offers the glories of food and cooking - all the yes-chef details we now love - in a cool, brilliant and suspenseful novel whose spec-fic plot wants to talk about the mysteries of sense-memory and death. I could not put it down
Deliciously evocative, bitingly inventive, written with humour and heart
A fun romp through New York's restaurant scene and the world of the undead