The Vegetarian A Novel

Han Kang, Deborah Smith

eBook - 2016

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel PrizeA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff“Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington PostBefore the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving... Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat... more