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100			_aKang, Han, _eauthor. _924359
245	1	4	_aThe vegetarian _b: a novel _c/ Han Kang; Translated by Deborah Smith, Deborah Smith.
264		1	_aLondon : _bGranta Publications Ltd, _c2023.
300			_a192 pages ; _c20 cm
500			_aNobel Prize in Literature 2024 — International Booker Prize 2016
520			_a'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion. Yeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies... Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.
651		0	_aSouth Korea _924361
655		0	_aAsian literature _924360
700			_aSmith, Deborah, _etranslator. _924362
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