She is the embodiment of the average person. Married to a man out of practical reasons and working at an office. Neither is she pretty nor is she ugly. She is living an absolutely average life in South Korea.
One day seemingly out of the blue she decides to stop eating meat. Her behavior gets weirder every day. Her family thin...
She is the embodiment of the average person. Married to a man out of practical reasons and working at an office. Neither is she pretty nor is she ugly. She is living an absolutely average life in South Korea.
One day seemingly out of the blue she decides to stop eating meat. Her behavior gets weirder every day. Her family thinks her completely crazy and admits her to an asylum after she tried to kill herself at a family occasion. From this point on Han Kangs story the vegetarian becomes more and more absurd, grotesque and at times even disgusting. The line between normality and insanity blurs and in the end you wont even know for yourself whats normal anymore.
Kang persuades with a great spelling style that reminds of Kafka. A story with great depths and a lot of surprises.
A story youve been waiting for without knowing it.
