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Fraught, disturbing, & beautiful, Han Kang’s novel about is about shame & desire, & our faltering attempts to understand the lives of others. Translated by Deborah Smith.Yeong-hye & her husband are ordinary people living in modern day South Korea. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions & mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. But then Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, commits a shocking act of subversion. As her rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre & frightening forms, Yeong-hye spirals further & further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison & becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree."...there is no end to the horrors that rattle in & out of this ferocious, magnificently death-affirming novel ... Han’s glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission & subversion find form in the parable." - Porochista Khakpopur, NY Times Book Review"This is Han Kang’s first novel to appear in English, & it’s a bracing, visceral, system-shocking addition to the Anglophone reader’s diet. It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, startling colours and disturbing questions ... The Vegetarian is an extraordin

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Author

Han Kang, Deborah Smith (translation)

Publisher

Crown/Archetype Publishing

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804189743

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.58 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14