Vegetarian, The (PB) - B-format
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139.00
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111.20
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ISBN:
9781846276033
Sprog:
Engelsk
Indbinding:
Paperback
Sideantal:
192
Forlag:
Granta Books
Udgivelsesdato:
05-11-2015
Udgivelsesår:
2015
Udgivelsesland:
Storbritannien
BESKRIVELSE:
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, and the Man Booker International Prize 2016. 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.