by Han Kang · Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253067900
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«La Végétarienne» is the novel by South Korean writer Han Kang, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (216 pages, in French).
After a series of disturbing dreams, Yônghye decides to stop eating meat and empty the fridge. Her rejection of animal food becomes a longing for purity that pits her against her family and social conventions. The novel explores the transformation of the body, identity and freedom in a symbolic narrative.
Translated from the Korean by Jeong Eun-Jin and Jacques Batilliot. Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024; the novel received the Man Booker International Prize 2016.
A work of literary fiction for readers who appreciate unsettling and symbolic stories centered on the body and identity.
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".
