Eat Me: Text Classics

‘It is a delicious, bravura piece of comic and erotic writing, with an opening that will change your view of late-night supermarket shopping forever.’ * Age *
‘A high-spirited comedy of manners only thinly veiled as erotica…Jaivin never loses sight of her self-declared goal, which is to wrench the writing of erotica from its male practitioners, dress it up with style and sly humour and restore it to women.’ * LA Times *
‘funny and seductive’ * Australian Womens Forum *
‘a modern, racy flight of fun that becomes irresistible…the true strength of this book, though, is Jaivin’s merciless wit and her ear for dialogue…She’s bitchy, wicked and intelligent. She has firm control over her material and a talent for slicing through the pretension with the precision of a sushi knife.’ – Matthew Condon * Weekend Australian *
‘This is erotic escapism at its best, with a touch of humour and a touch of class; a blend of fetishism, fun and kiwifruit!’ * New Woman *
‘this tossed salad of erotic scenarios charms as few examples of its genre have.’ * Kirkus Reviews *
‘very funny stuff.’ * Washington Post *
‘you’ll enjoy this tasty romp—you’d better, you slave—and will thank Jaivin for the exquisite pleasure.’ * Paper Magazine *
“It’s erotic. It’s feminist. It’s like, way post-modern. Eat Me, it beckons.’ * New York Post *
‘some of the scenes described actually turned me on…’ * Times Literary Supplement *

Linda Jaivin (Author)

Linda Jaivin was born in the United States and graduated with honors in Asian history from Brown University. She studied, lived, and worked for nine years in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China before moving to Australia in 1986.

In 1992, Jaivin co-edited the anthology New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices with Geremie Barme. Her first novel, Eat Me, appeared in 1995 and was a bestseller in Australia and (as Mange-moi) in France, among other countries. It has been translated into a dozen foreign languages. She followed Eat Me with Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space, Miles Walker, You’re Dead, the novella Dead Sexy, The Infernal Optimist, which was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and A Most Immoral Woman, based on the affair between the Australian journalist George ‘Chinese’ Morrison and the American heiress Mae Perkins in China and Japan in 1904.

Jaivin has also written two works of non-fiction: the essay collection Confessions of an S&M Virgin and the China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon, along with numerous articles, stories, and plays. She is a literary translator who has subtitled films by such leading Chinese directors as Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Hero).

Linda Jaivin lives in Sydney and is a visiting fellow in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University.

Kris Kneen (Introducer)

Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of the memoir Affection and the fiction novels An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, and Wintering, as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. They have written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television.

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