![]() ![]() ![]() Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself.Ĭelebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home.Īs her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. ![]() Winner, 2016 Man Booker International PrizeĪ beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul.īefore the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life.īut the dreams-invasive images of blood and brutality-torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. feminist literary interpretations of The Vegetarian, Deborah Smiths International Booker Prize- winning English version of Han Kangs novel. Han Kang, 2007 (Engl.Trans., Deborah Smith, 2015) ![]()
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