One autumn in New York, a young Polish poet, studying literature, and a Brazilian anthropologist researching a new book, meet, fall in love and move into a tiny apartment together. Tereza has a lover waiting for her in Poland, Jose a wife and child in Sao Paulo, and it would seem this could only be the most temporary of affairs. Yet there emerges the mesmerizingly explicit portrait of a relationship conducted at the extreme edge of sensuality, defying conventional definition. With no common language, exiled from their culture, for each of them the body of the other becomes everything: spirituality, sustenance, almost unbearable pleasure. Breathtakingly erotic, intensely physical, profoundly intelligent, THE TASTE OF A MAN pursues a path traced by a love based on pure appetite with shameless and unflinching candour, to its ecstatic and terrible conclusion.
- ISBN10 0349108668
- ISBN13 9780349108667
- Publish Date 5 March 1998 (first published 6 March 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 May 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Abacus
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English