Kyung-Ran Jo was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1969. She earned a degree in Creative Writing from Seoul Institute of the Arts and has participated in the University of Iowa's renowned International Writing Program. Since her fiction debut at age 28, she has earned numerous literary awards, including Today's Young Artist Prize from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. TONGUE, an immediate bestseller in South Korea, is her first novel to be translated into English.

Books by Kyung-Ran Jo

Tongue

written by Kyung-Ran Jo, translated by Chi-Young Kim - Fiction

When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deep depression. Returning to the kitchen of the Italian restaurant where her career first began, she slowly rebuilds her life, rediscovering her appreciation of food, both as nourishment and as sensual pleasure. She also starts to devise a plan for a final, vengeful act of culinary seduction.