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035 _a(UK-WkNB)9781803510057
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041 _aeng
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050 _aPL992.26
_b.K36C4313 2016
100 _aKang, Han,
_eauthor
_924359
245 1 4 _aThe vegetarian
_b: a novel
_c/ Han Kang; Translated by Deborah Smith, Deborah Smith.
260 _aLondon :
_bGranta Publications Ltd,
_c2023.
300 _a192 pages ;
_c20 cm.
520 _a'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.
586 _aNobel Prize in Literature 2024 — International Booker Prize 2016.
650 0 _aWomen
_zKorea (South)
_vFiction
_924557
650 0 _aVegetarians
_vFiction
_924558
650 0 _aNightmares
_vFiction
_924559
650 0 _aDreams
_vFiction
_924560
650 0 _aFamilies
_vFiction
_922172
651 0 _aKorea (South)
_924361
655 0 _aAsian literature
_924360
655 0 _aAllegories
_922968
655 0 _aPsychological fiction
_922456
700 _aSmith, Deborah
_etranslator
_912628
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999 _c4423
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