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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, and beautiful, Han Kang’s novel about is about shame and desire, and 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, & it’s a bracing, visceral, system-sh

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Author

Han Kang, Deborah Smith (translation)

Publisher

Crown/Archetype

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553448191

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.58 / 5 (30,615 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14