The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Vegetarian by Han Kang, Deborah Smith FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "[Han Kangs] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life."—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST 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 altogether. Its a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice thats become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one womans struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her. A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Review "Surreal . . . [A] mesmerizing mix of sex and violence ."—Alexandra Alter, The New York Times"[Han Kang] has been rightfully celebrated as a visionary in South Korea . . . Hans glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission and subversion find form in the parable. . . . Ultimately, though, how could we not go back to Kafka? More than The Metamorphosis, Kafkas journals and A Hunger Artist haunt this text."—Porochista Khakpour, The New York Times Book Review"Indebted to Kafka, this story of a South Korean womans radical transformation, which begins after she forsakes meat, will have you reading with your hand over your mouth in shock."—O: The Oprah Magazine"The Vegetarian has an eerie universality that gets under your skin and stays put irrespective of nation or gender."—Laura Miller, Slate"Slim and spiky and extremely disturbing . . . I find myself thinking about it weeks after I finished."—Jennifer Weiner, PopSugar"It takes a gifted storyteller to get you feeling ill at ease in your own body. Yet Han Kang often set me squirming with her first novel in English, at once claustrophobic and transcendent."—Chicago Tribune"Compelling . . . [A] seamless union of the visceral and the surreal."—Los Angeles Review of Books"A complex, terrifying look at how seemingly simple decisions can affect multiple lives . . . In a world where womens bodies are constantly under scrutiny, the protagonists desire to disappear inside of herself feels scarily familiar."—Vanity Fair"Elegant . . . a stripped-down, thoughtful narrative . . . about human psychology and physiology."—HuffPost"This elegant-yet-twisted horror story is all about power and its relationship with identity. Its chilling in the best ways, so buckle in and turn down the lights."—Elle"This haunting, original tale explores the eros, isolation and outer limits of a gripping metamorphosis that happens in plain sight. . . . Han Kang has written a remarkable novel with universal themes about isolation, obsession, duty and desire."—Minneapolis Star Tribune"Complex and strange . . . Hans prose moves swiftly, riveted on the scene unfolding in a way that makes this story compulsively readable. . . . [The Vegetarian] demands you to ask important questions, and its vivid images will be hard to shake. This is a book that will stay with you."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Dark dreams, simmering tensions, chilling violence . . . This South Korean novel is a feast. . . . It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, startling colors and disturbing questions. . . . Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience."—The Guardian Long Description Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize A beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul Before 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 altogether. It s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. Celebrated by critics around the world, "The Vegetarian" is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her." Review Quote "Surreal...[A] mesmerizing mix of sex and violence...vivid, chiseled...Like a cursed madwoman in classical myth, Yeong-hye seems both eerily prophetic and increasingly unhinged." -- Alexandra Alter, The New York Times "Ferocious...[Han Kang] has been rightfully celebrated as a visionary in South Korea... Hans glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission and subversion find form in the parable. There is something about short literary forms - this novel is under 200 pages - in which the allegorical and the violent gain special potency from their small packages... Ultimately, though, how could we not go back to Kafka? More than The Metamorphosis, Kafkas journals and A Hunger Artist haunt this text." -- Porochista Khakpour, New York Times Book Review "Astonishing...Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation." -- Entertainment Weekly "Sometimes how a book or a film puzzles you--how it may mystify even its own creator--is the main point. The way it keeps slithering out of your grasp. The way it chats with you in the parlor even as it drags something nameless and heavy through the woods out back....Thats the spirit in which to approach The Vegetarian ... The Vegetarian has an eerie universality that gets under your skin and stays put irrespective of nation or gender."-- Laura Miller, Slate.com "This book is both terrifying and terrific."-- Lauren Groff " The Vegetarian was slim and spiky and extremely disturbing, and I find myself thinking about it weeks after I finished." Jennifer Weiner, popsugar.com " The Vegetarian is one of the best novels Ive read in years. Its incredible, daring, and stunningly moving. I loved it."-- Laura van den Berg "A short novel of sexuality and madness that deserves its great success."-- Ian McEwan "If its true you are what you read, prepare to be sliced and severed, painted and slapped and fondled and broken to bits, left shocked and reeling on the other side of this stunning, dark star of a book."-- Amelia Gray "It takes a gifted storyteller to get you feeling ill at ease in your own body. Yet Han Kang often set me squirming with her first novel in English, at once claustrophobic and transcendent... Yeong-hyes compulsions feel more like a force of nature... A sea like that, rippling with unknowable shadow, looks all but impossible to navigate--but Id let Han Kang take the helm any time."-- Chicago Tribune "Provocative...shocking."-- The Washington Post "[An] utterly deserving winner of this years Man Booker International Prize...with haunting, almost hallucinatory beauty."-- Entertainment Weekly , Best Books of 2016 so far "This is a deceptive novel, its canvas much larger than the mild social satire that one initially imagines. Kang has bigger issues to raise... The matter of female autonomy assumes urgency and poignancy."-- The Boston Globe "Compelling...[A] seamless union of the visceral and the surreal."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "Indebted to Kafka, this story of a South Korean womans radical transformation, which begins after she forsakes meat, will have you reading with your hand over your mouth in shock." -- O , the Oprah Magazine "If you love books that grab you by the throat and keep you wide-eyed and shocked throughout, youve got to pick up Han Kangs The Vegetarian."-- EW.com "A complex, terrifying look at how seemingly simple decisions can affect multiple lives...In a world where womens bodies are constantly under scrutiny, the protagonists desire to disappear inside of herself feels scarily familiar."-- VanityFair.com "A sharply written allegory that extends far beyond its surreal premise to unexpected depths."-- The Millions "Visceral and hypnotic."-- Michele Filgate "An elegant tale, in three parts, of a woman whose sudden turn to veganism disrupts her family and exposes the worst human appetites and impulses... [a] stripped-down, thoughtful narrative... about human psychology and physiology."-- Huffington Post "Adventurous readers will be blown away by Han Kangs The Vegetarian , in which a once-submissive Korean wifes compulsion to stop eating meat spirals out of control. This moving story engages complicated questions about desire, guilt, obligation and madness."-- MORE Magazine "This elegant-yet-twisted horror story is all about power and its relationship with identity. Its chilling in the best ways, so buckle in and turn down the lights."-- Elle.com " The Vegetarian is the first--there will be more, lets hope--of Han Kangs novels to arrive in the United States...The style is realistic and psychological, and denies us the comfort that might be wrung from a fairy tale or a myth of metamorphosis. We all like to read about girls swapping their fish tails for legs or their unwrinkled arms for branches, but--at the risk of stating the obvious--a person cannot become a potted bit of green foodstuff. That Yeong-hye seems not to know this makes her dangerous, and doomed."-- Harpers Magazine "This haunting, original tale explores the eros, isolation and outer limits of a gripping metamorphosis that happens in plain sight... Han Kang has written a remarkable novel with universal themes about isolation, obsession, duty and desire." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Complex and strange...Hans prose moves swiftly, riveted on the scene unfolding in a way that makes this story compulsively readable...this is a book that demands you to ask important questions, and its vivid images will be hard to shake. This is a book that will stay with you."-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Brutally yet beautifully explores the gap between one persons expression and anothers reception."-- Harvard Crimson " The Vegetarian is incredibly fresh and gripping, due in large part to the unforgettable narrative structure... Han Kang has created a multi-leveled, well-crafted story that does what all great stories do: immediately connects the unique situation within these pages to the often painful experience of living."-- The Rumpus "Disquieting, thought-provoking and precisely informed." -- Shelf Awareness "A horror story in its depiction of the unknowability of others--of the sudden feeling that youve never actually known someone close to you....Its three-part structure is brilliant, gradually digging deeper and deeper into darker and darker places; the writing is spare and haunting; but perhaps most memorable is its crushing climax, a phantasmagoric yet emotionally true moment thats surely one of the years most powerful. This is an ingenious, upsetting, and unforgettable novel."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] spare, spectacular novel...Family dysfunction amid cultural suffocation is presented with elegant precision, transforming readers into complicit voyeurs. Fans of authors as diverse as Mary Karr and Haruki Murakami wont be able to turn away."-- Library Journal (starred review) "Korean writer Han Kangs elegant yet unsettling prose conveys her protagonists brother-in-laws obsessive, art-centered lust; her sisters tepid, regret-riddled existence; and Yeong-hyes vivid, disturbing dreams... Readers will want more of the authors shocking portrayals of our innermost doubts, beliefs, and longings."-- Booklist "[A] beautiful and disquieting new novel...concise and swift, its language often almost poetic...haunting." -- Bookpage "The book insists on a readers attention, with an almost hypnotically serene atmosphere interrupted by surreal images and frighteningly recognizable moments of ordinary despair. Han writes convincingly of the disruptive power of longing and the choice to either embrace or deny it, using details that are nearly fantastical in their strangeness to cut to the heart of the very human experience of discovering that one is no longer content with life as it is. An unusual and mesmerizing novel, gracefully written and deeply disturbing."-- Kirkus "Searing...[Yeong-hyes] extreme efforts to separate herself from her animal appetites reveal the sanity and normality of those closest to her to be mere matchstick houses."-- Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird "Suffused with a sensibility that evokes the matter-of-fact surrealism of Franz Kafka, featuring a female protagonist as engagingly perverse as Melvilles Bartleby, Han Kangs slender but robust novel addresses many vital matters--from the politics of gender to the presumptions of the male gaze, the conundrum of free will to the hegemony of meat--with a dark Excerpt from Book ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof*** Copyright Details ISBN1101906111 Author Deborah Smith Short Title VEGETARIAN Language English ISBN-10 1101906111 ISBN-13 9781101906118 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Pages 208 Year 2016 Subtitle A Novel Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2016-08-23 NZ Release Date 2016-08-23 US Release Date 2016-08-23 Publication Date 2016-08-23 UK Release Date 2016-08-23 Publisher Hogarth Press Imprint Hogarth Press Replaces 9780804189743 Audience General Translator Deborah Smith We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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