01711 a2200193 4500 250228b ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d 9781846276033 82-311.1 KAN/V Han Kang The vegetarian London: Granta, 2018. 183p. Yeong Hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners, she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flat line of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong Hye' s decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - A tree. Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction Vegetarianism--Fiction Self-realization in women--Fiction BK udc 49039 49039 0 0 udc 0 0 MAIN MAIN RN30 2025-02-21 48 298.76 9 1 895.735 HAN 38231 2026-11-05 2026-09-22 00:00:00 2026-09-22 499.00 2025-02-21 BK Recommended by Ankita Agrawal DPM/16/05/F