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020			_a9781846276033
037			_cPurchased _nNational Bookstall,Ernakulam
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bHAN/VE
100			_aHan Kang
245			_aVEGETARIAN _cKang,Han
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260			_aLondon _bPortobello _c2007/01/01
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500			_aA beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul 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. 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.
650			_aFiction
650			_aPsychological fiction
650			_aDomestic fiction
650			_aAllegories
650			_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
650			_aSelf-realization in women--Fiction.
650			_aVegetarianism--Fiction.
700			_aSmith,Deborah (tr.)
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