Name: The Vegetarian
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Author: Han Kang
ISBN: 9781803510057

Type

Physical Book

Author

Han Kang

Publisher

Granta Books

Collection

Best of Granta

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

183

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

13 x 20 cm

Weight

1.05

ISBN13

9781803510057

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The Vegetarian

Han Kang (Author) · Granta Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Vegetarian"

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'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.

Han Kang

(Author)

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Han Kang (Gwangju, South Korea, 1970), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, began her literary career in 1993 with the publication of several poems in the magazine "Literature and Society"

The following year, she won the Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest with her story "The Scarlet Anchor", marking her start in narrative. She is the author of The Vegetarian (Random House, 2024; International Booker Prize 2016), The Greek Lesson (Random House, 2023), Human Acts (Manhae Literature Prize in Korea and Malaparte Prize in Italy in 2017), White (finalist for the International Booker Prize 2018) and Impossible to Say Goodbye (Random House, 2024; Médicis Foreign Prize 2023)

The author has also received the Yi Sang Prize, the Young Artist of the Year Award, the 25th Korean Novel Prize, the Hwang Sun-won Literature Prize, and the Dong Ri Literature Prize. She worked as a professor in the Creative Writing department at the Seoul Institute of the Arts until 2018 and is currently dedicated full-time to writing. Her work has been published in more than thirty languages.

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