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The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Han Kang

Deborah Smith

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'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.

Classification : General & Literary Fiction
Pub Date : NOV 5, 2015
Imprint : Granta Books
Page Extent : 192
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9781846276033
Price : INR 499

Han Kang

Han Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Gwangju, South Korea, she moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, 2017). She is based in Seoul.

Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith BSc (Hons) MSc MAPP MBPsS is a Positive Psychologist with over 25 years of professional experience as a psychotherapist working with individuals and groups. Best known for her work in wellbeing and mindfulness with WeightWatchers (WW) and writing a monthly Q&A page in the WW (WeightWatchers) Magazine. Deborah has taught mindfulness and meditation for over 25 years internationally and across the UK. She runs corporate wellbeing workshops and residential wellbeing retreats. She is a guest lecturer at Roehampton University and has a private practice in Bath.

The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Han Kang

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