Kang Han
The vegetarian
- Author: Kang Han
- Genre: Social novels
- Language: English
- Target group: adults
- Year of publication: 2015
- Publisher: Portobello Books, London
- Physical description: 183 pages, 20 cm
- Award: Booker prize
- Tags: Booker prize
When Yeong-hye one day throws out all the meat from the refrigerator and announces that from now on she is a vegetarian, the customs of her marriage start to crumble. Things escalate at a family lunch when her father forcefully shoves a piece of meat in her mouth. Yeong-hye picks up a knife, cuts her wrist, and ends up in a hospital. From that event on we can observe a gradual decay of her family and the nonefficiency of institutions Yeong-hye is subjected to. Han Kang received the Booker prize (2016) for her first novel translated into English. (MŠ)
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