The Vegetarian

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Pubblicato il 11 Settembre 2016 da Hogarth.

ISBN:
978-0-553-44818-4
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Translation of Ch'aesikchuŭija (Published 2007 by Ch'angbi)

4 edizioni

Skip the meat and go straight to this.

Yes, this plot is going places. But it finds very natural ways to take the reader along and experience this wild series of events in a believable way. Full review here.

ha recensito The Vegetarian di Han Kang

Culturally translatable ascetism

This was a difficult book to finish. I wanted to finish it, for about a week, but the last 50 or so pages are emotionally harrowing. Hard work.

Stylistically beautiful. Terse and without any extraneous detail, it reads a bit like a ascetic philosophical exploration of decisions in society.

A lot of other reviews (and the blurb above) focus on the book's setting in Korea -- traditionally meat-heavy diet, traditionally rigid patriachal family structure etc. I didn't find this -- apart from the names of people (which are few) and the descriptions of food, there is very little to locate this book in space or time beyond being somewhat modern.