The Vegetarian
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9781101906118
- ISBN10 1101906111
- Type Book
- Pages 188
- Published 2016
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Subjects
English LiteratureThe Vegetarian
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book 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.