Jonathan Grimwood
2013, pp. 320,
$ 26.95
Region: Britain
As gripping as Patrick Suskind’s Perfume, as gloriously ambitious as Daniel Kehlman’s Measuring the World, and as prize-worthy as Andrew Miller’s Pure, The Last Banquet is a hugely appealing novel about food and flavor, about the Age of Reason, the ages of man, and about obsession.