NoFoodA suite of short fictions by Sarah Tolmie, author of the critically acclaimed debut novel The Stone Boatmen, in August 2014. In Tolmie's vision of the messy near future, food is the language of love. Harwicke Arar, a relentless perfectionist, is the chef at NoFood, the most famous restaurant in the world. He serves imaginary food to diners who cannot digest it because they have all acquired the fashionable Total Gastric Bypass. His wife Seychelles loves him so much that she can actually taste what he creates. Gringo hunts the world for mushrooms and other illegal delicacies in a world of embargo, providing what people desire in an endless act of expiation for his daughter. Fats Bester, an artist among donut-makers, is saved by Carl, NoFood's zen headwater. Dononvan Donovan, hard-headed embargo lawyer for Hardy and Seychelles, is transformed by Cena, Hardy's posthumous daughter. |
