Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker, she is a dutiful wife. But their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, commits a shocking act of subversion: she refuses to eat meat. Thus begins a disturbing and thrilling psychological drama about taboo, desire, rebellion and fantasy.
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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 16 Jan 2025
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781803512044
About Han Kang
Han Kang was born in Gwangju South Korea and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize the Today's Young Artist Award and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian her first novel to be translated into English was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello 2016) and The White Book (Portobello forthcoming 2017). She is based in Seoul. Deborah Smith's translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang The Vegetarian and Human Acts and two by Bae Suah A Greater Music and Recitation. In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She tweets as @londonkoreanist.