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Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspiring but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline 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.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Pełny tytuł: Vegetarian
• Podtytuł: A Novel
• Autor: Han Kang
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 160
• EAN: 9781846275623
• ID: 05099752
• Wydawca: Portobello Books
• Waga: 197 g
• Wymiary: 216 × 135 × 16 mm
• Data wydania: 11. December 2014

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