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020			_a9781846276033
082			_a895.735 _bKAN
100			_aKang, Han _99155
245			_aThe vegetarian
260			_bGranta Publications _aLondon _c2018
300			_a183 p.
365			_aINR _b499.00
520			_aYeong-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 hospitalization. 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			_aVegetarians _99805
650			_aDreams _92032
650			_aVegetarianism _99806
650			_aSelf-realization in women _99807
650			_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) in women _98928
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