Ebook {Epub PDF} My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

 · Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was a finalist for the Booker www.doorway.ru: Penguin Publishing Group. At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make /5().  · My Year of Meats: A Novel. My Year of Meats.: Ruth Ozeki. Penguin, Mar 1, - Fiction - pages. 28 Reviews. A cross-cultural tale of two 4/5(28).

My Year of Meats tells the story of a young, half-Japanese half-white documentary filmmaker named Ja n e Takagi-Little who agrees to produce a Japanese TV show (called My American Wife) sponsored by an American meat exporting www.doorway.ru show features various American families and their favorite meat dishes, aiming to convert Japanese culture's interest in American life into increased meat. Ruth Ozeki is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. She is also the author of My Year of Meats and, most recently, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for A Tale for the Time Being. Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut, by an American father and Japanese mother. In June she was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest. Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist www.doorway.ru is the award-winning author of three novels, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was a finalist for the Booker www.doorway.ru nonfiction work includes a memoir, The Face: A Time Code, and the documentary film, Halving the www.doorway.ru is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foun­dation and teaches.

At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as “rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver. My Year of Meats is a contemporary novel of literary fiction which focuses on the American meat industry, global capitalism, sex and gender, and artmaking. Written by Booker Prize-nominee Ruth L. Ozeki and published in , the novel won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. This guide refers to the Penguin paperback edition of the text. Plot Summary.