by Han Kang · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788410009059
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The Vegetarian is a novel by South Korean author Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2016 International Booker Prize. The story tells the life of Yeonghye, a woman who decides to stop eating meat, transforming her life into a disturbing nightmare. Through three narrative voices, the novel explores the progressive detachment from the human condition of a woman who chooses to stop being what is imposed on her. The reader becomes a witness to a subversive act that fractures the protagonist's family life, transforming her relationships into a whirlwind of violence, shame and desire.
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
