Han Kang: The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
Buch
- A Novel
- Übersetzung: Deborah Smith
- Granta Publications, 11/2015
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781846276033
- Bestellnummer: 8315240
- Umfang: 183 Seiten
- Gewicht: 145 g
- Maße: 198 x 126 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.11.2015
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016Yeong-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
The Vegetarian
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