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The Vegetarian: A Novel

The Vegetarian: A Novel

The Vegetarian: A Novel

Traducció: Deborah Smith

Editorial: Portobello

Pàgines: 180

Any: 2016

EAN: 9781846276033

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Sobre el libro The Vegetarian: A Novel de Han Kang publicado por Portobello al 2016:

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. 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. 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. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. 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.
Han Kang

Sobre Han Kang

Han Kang (Gwangju, Corea del Sud, 1970) va començar la seva carrera com a novel·lista en guanyar el concurs literari de primavera Seül Shinmun en 1994. La vegetariana, la seva primera novel·la traduïda a l´anglès, va guanyar en 2016 el Premi Booker Internacional. La seva següent novel·la, Actes humans, li va valer el Premi Manhae de Literatura de Corea i el Premi Malaparte a Itàlia en 2017. El llibre blanc va ser finalista del Booker International en 2018....

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