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The Vegetarian

✍️ Han Kang, Deborah Smith
🏷️ Fiction Contemporary Literary Fiction
🎭 Characters: Kim Yeong-hye, Kim In-hye

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more -plant-like- existence is a shocking act of subversion.

And as her passive r Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more -plant-like- existence is a shocking act of subversion.

And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye-impossibly, ecstatically, tragically-far from her once-known self altogether.

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