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'The Vegetarian' wins the Man Booker International and it's a nightmare

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Article
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/twinkle-twinkle/the-vegetarian-wins-the-man-booker-international-and-its-a-nightmare/
Journal
The Times of India
Issued Date
May 18, 2016
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
INDIA
City
Mumbai
Book
-
Writer
Han Kang

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 161
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  • English(English)

South Korean author Han Kang’s short novel The Vegetarian has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize this year, shared with translator Deborah Smith. The comparison with Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is inevitable. The opening sentence there is perhaps more lacerating today than it was a 100 years ago: “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The opening of The Vegetarian also grows in traumatic effect: “Before my wife turned vegetarian, I’d always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.”...     Source: http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/twinkle-twinkle/the-vegetarian-wins-the-man-booker-international-and-its-a-nightmare/

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