The vegetarian : a novel
Kang, Han,
The vegetarian : a novel / Han Kang; Translated by Deborah Smith, Deborah Smith. - London : Granta Publications Ltd, 2023. - 192 pages ; 20 cm.
'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian.
But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion. Yeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies... Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 — International Booker Prize 2016.
9781803510057 Đ9.99
Women--Korea (South)--Fiction
Vegetarians--Fiction
Nightmares--Fiction
Dreams--Fiction
Families --Fiction
Korea (South)
Asian literature
Allegories
Psychological fiction
PL992.26 / .K36C4313 2016
The vegetarian : a novel / Han Kang; Translated by Deborah Smith, Deborah Smith. - London : Granta Publications Ltd, 2023. - 192 pages ; 20 cm.
'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian.
But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion. Yeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies... Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 — International Booker Prize 2016.
9781803510057 Đ9.99
Women--Korea (South)--Fiction
Vegetarians--Fiction
Nightmares--Fiction
Dreams--Fiction
Families --Fiction
Korea (South)
Asian literature
Allegories
Psychological fiction
PL992.26 / .K36C4313 2016
