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The Vegetarian

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Author
Han Kang
Co-Author
-
Translator
Deborah Smith
Publisher
Granta Publications
Published Year
2015
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
채식주의자
Romanization of Original
Chaesikjuuija
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781846275630
Page
-
File Size
193 KB

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 161
About the Original Work
  • 채식주의자
  • Author : Han Kang
  • Published Year : 2007
  • English Title : The Vegetarian
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.
Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

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Translated Books61 See More

  • Romanian(Română) Book
    Vegetariana
    Han Kang / 한강 / 2021 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
  • Romanian(Română) Book
    Vegetariana
    Han Kang / 한강 / 2016 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
  • Finnish(Suomi) Book
    Vegetaristi
    Han Kang / 한강 / 2018 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
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