Release Date:- 2016-02-02
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FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
ā[Han Kangās] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.āāThe Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESāS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
āFerocious.āāThe New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)
āBoth terrifying and terrific.āāLauren Groff
āProvocative [and] shocking.āāThe Washington Post
Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreamsāinvasive images of blood and brutalityātorture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. Itās a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice thatās become sacred to her. 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.
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one womanās struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.
A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly