The Vegetarian

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite' Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion. Yeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies...Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kang Han, Han Kang, Kang Han
• Mitarbeit: Deborah Smith (Übersetzung), Smith Deborah (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Granta Books
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2015
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur
• EAN: 9781846276033
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-603-3
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 13 x 19.8 x 1.3 cm
• Themen: Südkoreanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, parasite, Almond, Nobel prize, Kim Jiyoung, Pachinko, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Haruki Murakami; Parasite; south korean novel; korean fiction; Kim Jiyoung; pachinko; I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki; korean novel; almond; convenience store woman; nobel prize, Korean fiction, convenience store woman, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, korean novel, south korean novel