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Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize A beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams invasive images of blood and brutality torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It s 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 that s 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 woman s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Vegetarian
• Author: Han Kang, Deborah Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780553448184
• ISBN: 0553448188
• ID: 11007160
• Publisher: Random House Publishing
• Weight: 344 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 219 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. February 2016

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