The Cannibal's Cookbook

A startling culinary thriller by one of contemporary Argentina’s most brilliant authors, a worthy rival to Federico Andahazi. According to critics, this is what “Perfume” might have been like if Patrick Süskind had lived in South America and been captivated not by ethereal scents, but by haute cuisine. “César Lombroso was seven months old when he first tasted human flesh”—so begins this book. Yet the story it tells begins much earlier, at the turn of the twentieth century, when twin brothers Luciano and Ludovico Cagliostro, trading the azure landscapes of the Mediterranean for the rugged coast of the South Atlantic, opened the legendary restaurant “Almacén Buenos Aires”—and penned the no less legendary “Cookbook of the Southern Seas”…