Consumed
David Cronenberg
Penguin Group (Canada)
<p>David Cronenberg&#8212;the celebrated Canadian film director, lauded by <i>The New York Times </i>for creating "some of the best, most challenging, most unusual English-language films of the last twenty years," and named a chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France&#8212;turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, disturbing intersection of desire and decay in <i>Consumed</i>, his highly anticipated debut novel.<p>In the book-filled, artfully messy Paris apartment of the famous French intellectuals Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, an astonishing discovery is made&#8212;the grisly, butchered remains of Celestine, partially eaten. Her husband, sought by police for questioning, is nowhere to be found.<p>Naomi Seberg, a young journalist, embarks upon a quest to uncover the truth of Celestine's death and Aristide's role in it. She travels to Tokyo to interview the suspected cannibal, while her boyfriend, Nathan Math, a medical journalist, seduces the cancer patient of...</p></p></p>