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This book was originally published in Korean as three separate novelettes & then compiled into a novel, ‘Chaesikjuuija’, published in 2007 by Changbi PublishersFraught, 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 and her husband are ordinary people living in modern day South Korea. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and 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 and frightening forms, Yeong-hye spirals further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree."...there is no end to the horrors that rattle in and out of this ferocious, magnificently death-affirming novel ... Han’s glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission and subversion find form in the parable." - Porochista Khakpopur, The New York Times Book Review"This is Han Kang’s first novel to appear in English, and it’s a bracing, visceral, system-shockin

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Author
Han Kang, Deborah Smith (translation)
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781846276033
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction

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