Description
| Product ID: | 9781489446114 |
| Product Form: | Audio disc |
| Country of Manufacture: | AU |
| Title: | The Vegetarian |
| Authors: | Author: Han Kang, Deborah Smith |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bolinda Audio Books |
| Publisher Name: | Bolinda Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-06-28 |
