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"A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored."—Eimear McBride, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 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. A disturbing, yet beautifully composed narrative told in three parts, The Vegetarian is an allegorical novel about modern day South Korea, but also a story of obsession, choice, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
- Suport
- Paper
- Gèneres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- Ofert per
- Crown Publishing (Editorial)
(User: CrownPublishing) - Lot
- September 2015 Starts: 2015-09-08Acabat: 2015-09-28
- En venda
- 2016-02-02
- País
- United States of America
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- Informació del llibre
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