Best of Granta: The Vegetarian
Publisher,Granta
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 192
Shelf: FICTION / ADULT FICTION / LITERARY FICTION
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WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
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 and in increasingly 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.
Dimensions: 12.9 x 1 x 19.8 cm
