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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 flat-line 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 hospitalization. She unknowingly captivates her sister’s husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiraling 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.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"location":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21,25],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_cat-fiction","8":"pa_bind-paperback","9":"pa_book-author-han-kang","10":"pa_isbn-10-176","11":"pa_isbn-13-978-1846276033","12":"pa_lang-english","13":"pa_no-pages-174","14":"pa_pub-year-54","15":"pa_publisher-portobello-books","17":"first","18":"outofstock","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"locations":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}