South Korea

The Vegetarian

by Han Kang

Summary

After dreaming of blood and meat, Yeong-hye decides to stop eating meat, setting off a chain of violent and transgressive events in her family. Han Kang's Man Booker International Prize-winning novel is a disturbing allegory of bodily autonomy and patriarchal control.

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Han Kang

South Korean novelist (born 1970) and the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (2024). Her fiction explores violence, trauma, and the fragility of the human body and psyche with lyrical, spare intensity.

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Published
2007
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Han Kang