Asako Yuzuki

Hooked (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel of Obsession
Übersetzer: Barton, Polly

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Paperback Original

From the author of the international bestseller Butter comes a chilling and perceptive novel about obsession, female friendship, and the slow unraveling of two lives

Eriko's life looks perfectfrom her prestigious job at a Japanese trading firm to her spotless apartment and devoted parents. Her newest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile Perch into the Japanese market, is as ambitious as she is. But beneath her flawless surface lies a consuming loneliness. Eriko has never been able to hold on to a real friend.

Enter Shoko: a popular lifestyle blogger whose work Eriko follows obsessively. Shoko lives a life of controlled chaosmessy apartment, take-out dinners, a kind, easy-going husband. She writes about daily contentment, though her fractured relationship with her father gnaws at the edges of her happiness.

When Eriko orchestrates a chance meeting with Shoko, the two women strike up an unlikely connection. For a fleeting moment, Eriko believes she's finally found what she's always longed for. But as her fascination turns to fixation and Shoko's carefully balanced life begins to dissolve, both women are pushed to breaking points neither of them saw coming.

Deftly translated by Polly Barton, Hooked is a taut, provocative novel about modern womanhood, the hunger for connection, and the quiet, ordinary ways our lives can spiral out of control. With razor-sharp insight and disarming empathy, Asako Yuzuki explores how far we'll go to be seen and what happens when the ones who see us don't like what they find.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063442436
• Artikelnr.: 74930598

Autorenporträt

Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. Her English-language debut, Butter, an international bestseller, was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2024 and took home the British Book Awards 2025 Debut Fiction Award. For Hooked, she received the Yamamoto Shugoro Award.

Rezensionen

Praise for Butter:

'Exuberant, indulgent romp of a novel ... Butter is a full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' Sunday Times

'Yuzuki has created a cult phenomenon' iNews

'Yuzuki has become the poster girl of a British boom for Japanese fiction' The Times

'Word of mouth hit and cult Japanese bestseller, Butter, took the literary world by storm' BBC

'Readers around the world are finding themselves utterly captivated' Daily Mail

'Ambitious and unsettling ... a thought-provoking and surprisingly feelgood take on friendship, transgressive pleasures, and society's impossibly contradictory expectations of women' Guardian

'A biting satire on fat-shaming culture and double standards in beauty' Financial Times

'I have been glued to Butter' Nigel Slater

'I really enjoyed it' Meera Syal, on BBC Between the Covers

'Compelling, delightfully weird' Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?

'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' Erin Kelly, author of Broadchurch

'A heady serving of food culture and feminism ... Yuzuki goes beyond the typical crime narrative' Japan Times