The Resource The vegetarian : a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
The vegetarian : a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
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The item The vegetarian : a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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 flatline 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 hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling 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
- Language
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- eng
- kor
- eng
- Label
- The vegetarian : a novel
- Title
- The vegetarian
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
- Language
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- eng
- kor
- eng
- Summary
- 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 flatline 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 hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling 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
- Cataloging source
- CaOAUW
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- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Han, Kang
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Korean
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Smith, Deborah
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- Hunting
- Vegetarians
- Korea (South)
- Label
- The vegetarian : a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 188 p.
- Isbn
- 9780553448184
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- System control number
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- 197854
- 839583
- Label
- The vegetarian : a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 188 p.
- Isbn
- 9780553448184
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- System control number
-
- 197854
- 839583
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