David Cronenberg, the celebrated Canadian film director, lauded by The New York Times for creating "some of the best, most challenging, most unusual English-language films of the last twenty years," and named a chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France-turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, disturbing intersection of desire and decay in Consumed, his highly anticipated debut novel.

In the book-filled, artfully messy Paris apartment of the famous French intellectuals Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, an astonishing discovery is made-the grisly, butchered remains of Celestine, partially eaten. Her husband, sought by police for questioning, is nowhere to be found.

Naomi [...]