The Vegetarian ( Man Booker International Prize 2016)
Editorial PORTOBELLO
Festland Spanien
- Verlag PORTOBELLO
- ISBN13 9781846276033
- ISBN10 1846276039
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 160
- Sammlung GARDNERS #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2015
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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English LiteraturThe Vegetarian ( Man Booker International Prize 2016)
Editorial PORTOBELLO
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
The Man Booker International Prize
From 2016 the Man Booker International Prize has evolved to encourage more publishing and reading of quality fiction in translation.
The Winner 2016: The Vegetarian
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, commits a shocking act of subversion. As her rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, Yeong-hye spirals 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.