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VEGETARIAN (Record no. 146651)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781846276033
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Terms of availability Purchased
Note National Bookstall,Ernakulam
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number F
Item number HAN/VE
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Han Kang
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title VEGETARIAN
Statement of responsibility, etc. Kang,Han
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Portobello
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2007/01/01
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Size of unit 183
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul<br/>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, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.<br/><br/>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.<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Allegories
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Self-realization in women--Fiction.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Vegetarianism--Fiction.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Smith,Deborah (tr.)
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Inventory number Total Checkouts Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Checked out Date last seen Date last checked out Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library Fiction 2016-10-24 Purchase 499.00 2092,2016/10/19 50 10 F HAN/VE E186252 2025-05-13 2025-04-28 2025-04-28 2016-10-24 Lending