The Vegetarian
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. 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. He is an office worker with moderat… Celý popis ↓
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The Vegetarian
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. 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. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife.
Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. 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. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation.
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.
Parametre
- Výrobca
- Penguin
- Autor
- Han Kang
- Žáner
- beletria
- Počet strán
- 160
- Rok vydania
- 2015
- Jazyk
- anglické
- ISBN
- 978-1-84627-603-3
- Váha
- 140 g
- Väzba
- Brožovaná bez prebalu lesklá
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