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The Vegetarian: A Novel Kindle Edition
“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)
“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff
“Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington Post
Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself.
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.
A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHogarth
- Publication dateFebruary 2, 2016
- File size6562 KB
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“[Han Kang] has been rightfully celebrated as a visionary in South Korea . . . Han’s glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission and subversion find form in the parable. . . . Ultimately, though, how could we not go back to Kafka? More than The Metamorphosis, Kafka’s journals and ‘A Hunger Artist’ haunt this text.”—Porochista Khakpour, The New York Times Book Review
“Indebted to Kafka, this story of a South Korean woman’s radical transformation, which begins after she forsakes meat, will have you reading with your hand over your mouth in shock.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“The Vegetarian has an eerie universality that gets under your skin and stays put irrespective of nation or gender.”—Laura Miller, Slate
“Slim and spiky and extremely disturbing . . . I find myself thinking about it weeks after I finished.”—Jennifer Weiner, PopSugar
“It takes a gifted storyteller to get you feeling ill at ease in your own body. Yet Han Kang often set me squirming with her first novel in English, at once claustrophobic and transcendent.”—Chicago Tribune
"Compelling . . . [A] seamless union of the visceral and the surreal.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
“A complex, terrifying look at how seemingly simple decisions can affect multiple lives . . . In a world where women’s bodies are constantly under scrutiny, the protagonist’s desire to disappear inside of herself feels scarily familiar.”—Vanity Fair
“Elegant . . . a stripped-down, thoughtful narrative . . . about human psychology and physiology.”—HuffPost
“This elegant-yet-twisted horror story is all about power and its relationship with identity. It's chilling in the best ways, so buckle in and turn down the lights.”—Elle
“This haunting, original tale explores the eros, isolation and outer limits of a gripping metamorphosis that happens in plain sight. . . . Han Kang has written a remarkable novel with universal themes about isolation, obsession, duty and desire.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Complex and strange . . . Han’s prose moves swiftly, riveted on the scene unfolding in a way that makes this story compulsively readable. . . . [The Vegetarian] demands you to ask important questions, and its vivid images will be hard to shake. This is a book that will stay with you.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Dark dreams, simmering tensions, chilling violence . . . This South Korean novel is a feast. . . . It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, startling colors and disturbing questions. . . . Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience.”—The Guardian
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The Vegetarian
Before my wife turned vegetarian, I’d always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way. To be frank, the first time I met her I wasn’t even attracted to her. Middling height; bobbed hair neither long nor short; jaundiced, sickly-looking skin; somewhat prominent cheekbones; her timid, sallow aspect told me all I needed to know. As she came up to the table where I was waiting, I couldn’t help but notice her shoes—the plainest black shoes imaginable. And that walk of hers—neither fast nor slow, striding nor mincing.
However, if there wasn’t any special attraction, nor did any particular drawbacks present themselves, and therefore there was no reason for the two of us not to get married. The passive personality of this woman in whom I could detect neither freshness nor charm, or anything especially refined, suited me down to the ground. There was no need to affect intellectual leanings in order to win her over, or to worry that she might be comparing me to the preening men who pose in fashion catalogues, and she didn’t get worked up if I happened to be late for one of our meetings. The paunch that started appearing in my mid-twenties, my skinny legs and forearms that steadfastly refused to bulk up in spite of my best efforts, the inferiority complex I used to have about the size of my penis—I could rest assured that I wouldn’t have to fret about such things on her account.
I’ve always inclined towards the middle course in life. At school I chose to boss around those who were two or three years my junior, and with whom I could act the ringleader, rather than take my chances with those my own age, and later I chose which college to apply to based on my chances of obtaining a scholarship large enough for my needs. Ultimately, I settled for a job where I would be provided with a decent monthly salary in return for diligently carrying out my allotted tasks, at a company whose small size meant they would value my unremarkable skills. And so it was only natural that I would marry the most run-of-the-mill woman in the world. As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only ever have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence.
In keeping with my expectations, she made for a completely ordinary wife who went about things without any distasteful frivolousness. Every morning she got up at six a.m. to prepare rice and soup, and usually a bit of fish. From adolescence she’d contributed to her family’s income through the odd bit of part-time work. She ended up with a job as an assistant instructor at the computer graphics college she’d attended for a year, and was subcontracted by a manhwa publisher to work on the words for their speech bubbles, which she could do from home.
She was a woman of few words. It was rare for her to demand anything of me, and however late I was in getting home she never took it upon herself to kick up a fuss. Even when our days off happened to coincide, it wouldn’t occur to her to suggest we go out somewhere together. While I idled the afternoon away, TV remote in hand, she would shut herself up in her room. More than likely she would spend the time reading, which was practically her only hobby. For some unfathomable reason, reading was something she was able to really immerse herself in—reading books that looked so dull I couldn’t even bring myself to so much as take a look inside the covers. Only at mealtimes would she open the door and silently emerge to prepare the food. To be sure, that kind of wife, and that kind of lifestyle, did mean that I was unlikely to find my days particularly stimulating. On the other hand, if I’d had one of those wives whose phones ring on and off all day long with calls from friends or co-workers, or whose nagging periodically leads to screaming rows with their husbands, I would have been grateful when she finally wore herself out.
The only respect in which my wife was at all unusual was that she didn’t like wearing a bra. When I was a young man barely out of adolescence, and my wife and I were dating, I happened to put my hand on her back only to find that I couldn’t feel a bra strap under her sweater, and when I realized what this meant I became quite aroused. In order to judge whether she might possibly have been trying to tell me something, I spent a minute or two looking at her through new eyes, studying her attitude. The outcome of my studies was that she wasn’t, in fact, trying to send any kind of signal. So if not, was it laziness, or just a sheer lack of concern? I couldn’t get my head round it. It wasn’t even as though she had shapely breasts which might suit the ‘no-bra look’. I would have preferred her to go around wearing one that was thickly padded, so that I could save face in front of my acquaintances.
Even in the summer, when I managed to persuade her to wear one for a while, she’d have it unhooked barely a minute after leaving the house. The undone hook would be clearly visible under her thin, light-coloured tops, but she wasn’t remotely concerned. I tried reproaching her, lecturing her to layer up with a vest instead of a bra in that sultry heat. She tried to justify herself by saying that she couldn’t stand wearing a bra because of the way it squeezed her breasts, and that I’d never worn one myself so I couldn’t understand how constricting it felt. Nevertheless, considering I knew for a fact that there were plenty of other women who, unlike her, didn’t have anything particularly against bras, I began to have doubts about this hypersensitivity of hers.
In all other respects, the course of our our married life ran smoothly. We were approaching the five-year mark, and since we were never madly in love to begin with we were able to avoid falling into that stage of weariness and boredom that can otherwise turn married life into a trial. The only thing was, because we’d decided to put off trying for children until we’d managed to secure a place of our own, which had only happened last autumn, I sometimes wondered whether I would ever get to hear the reassuring sound of a child gurgling ‘dada’, and meaning me. Until a certain day last February, when I came across my wife standing in the kitchen at day-break in just her nightclothes, I had never considered the possibility that our life together might undergo such an appalling change.
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‘What are you doing standing there?’
I’d been about to switch on the bathroom light when I was brought up short. It was around four in the morning, and I’d woken up with a raging thirst from the bottle and a half of soju I’d had with dinner, which also meant I was taking longer to come to my senses than usual.
‘Hello? I asked what you’re doing?’
It was cold enough as it was, but the sight of my wife was even more chilling. Any lingering alcohol-induced drowsiness swiftly passed. She was standing, motionless, in front of the fridge. Her face was submerged in the darkness so I couldn’t make out her expression, but the potential options all filled me with fear. Her thick, naturally black hair was fluffed up, dishevelled, and she was wearing her usual white ankle-length nightdress.
On such a night, my wife would ordinarily have hurriedly slipped on a cardigan and searched for her towelling slippers. How long might she have been standing there like that—barefoot, in thin summer nightwear, ramrod straight as though perfectly oblivious to my repeated interrogation? Her face was turned away from me, and she was standing there so unnaturally still it was almost as if she were some kind of ghost, silently standing its ground.
What was going on? If she couldn’t hear me then perhaps that meant she was sleepwalking.
I went towards her, craning my neck to try and get a look at her face.
‘Why are you standing there like that? What’s going on . . .’
When I put my hand on her shoulder I was surprised by her complete lack of reaction. I had no doubt that I was in my right mind and all this was really happening; I had been fully conscious of everything I had done since emerging from the living room, asking her what she was doing, and moving towards her. She was the one standing there completely unresponsive, as though lost in her own world. It was like those rare occasions when, absorbed in a late-night TV drama, she’d failed to notice me arriving home. But what could there be to absorb her attention in the pale gleam of the fridge’s white door, in the pitch-black kitchen at four in the morning?
‘Hey!’
Her profile swam towards me out of the darkness. I took in her eyes, bright but not feverish, as her lips slowly parted.
‘. . . I had a dream.’
Her voice was surprisingly clear.
‘A dream? What the hell are you talking about? Do you know what time it is?’
She turned so that her body was facing me, then slowly walked off through the open door into the living room. As she entered the room she stretched out her foot and calmly pushed the door to. I was left alone in the dark kitchen, looking helplessly on as her retreating figure was swallowed up through the door.
Product details
- ASIN : B00X2F7NRI
- Publisher : Hogarth; Reprint edition (February 2, 2016)
- Publication date : February 2, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 6562 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 185 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,496 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #14 in Psychological Literary Fiction
- #15 in Cultural Heritage Fiction
- #28 in Contemporary Literary Fiction
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2024“Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way. To be frank, the first time I met her I wasn't even attracted to her. Middling height; bobbed hair neither long nor short; jaundiced, sickly-looking skin; prominent cheekbones; her timid, sallow aspect told me all I needed to know.”
“I told myself that even though the woman I was living with was a little odd, nothing particularly bad would come of it. I thought I could get by perfectly well just thinking of her as a stranger, or no, as a sister, or even a maid, someone who puts food on the table and keeps the house in good order. But it was no easy thing for a man in the prime of his life, to have his physical needs go unsatisfied.”
“My father-in-law shouted at Yeong-hye. "Don't you understand what your father's telling you? If he tells you to eat, you eat!" I expected an answer from my wife along the lines of "I'm sorry, Father, but I just can't eat it," but all she said was "I do not eat meat", clearly enunciated, and seemingly not in the least bit apologetic.”
“His is flat palm cleaved the empty space and my wife cupped her cheek in her hand. I'd known of his incredibly violent temperament for some time, but it was the first time I witnessed him strike someone. My father-in-law mashed the pork to a pulp on my wife's lips as she struggled in agony. He flew into a passion again, striking her in the face once more. In the instant that the force of the slap knocked my wife's mouth open he managed to jam the pork in.”
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Cast of Characters:
Yeong-hye, the vegetarian
Mr. Cheong, husband of the vegetarian
Yeong-ho, brother of the vegetarian
Wife of Yeong-ho, unnamed
In-hye, sister of the vegetarian
Husband of In-hye, unnamed
Father of the vegetarian, unnamed
Mother of the vegetarian, unnamed
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Han Kang, 2024 Nobel Literature Prize Laureate, presents the deceptively simple story of a Korean family’s reaction when their daughter changes and no longer conforms to what is expected. Awakening from a disturbing dream, she gives up meat and empties the freezer of bones, blood and flesh; of pig, cow, fish and fowl. She transforms from the submissive provider of domestic comfort that her husband has come to rely on. Refusing to have sex on the grounds he smells like meat, she grows gaunt, stays up late watching serial dramas, stops wearing make-up and discards shoes and bags made of leather.
Worse than her diet and fashion surprises, such as not wearing uncomfortable brassieres to his office functions, is her insistence on absolute candor in social circumstances. Alarmed by his wife Yeong-hye’s abrupt changes, Cheong entreats his sister-in-law In-hye and mother-in-law to intervene. They hold a family dinner where Cheong’s father-in-law is enraged and beats her. She is taken to a hospital after an attempted suicide and personality crisis. Cheong becomes attracted to In-hye, a practical homemaker and breadwinner, even though they are inconveniently related, and abandons Yeong-hye.
The husband of In-hye, an avante-garde video artist, has fantasies about a birthmark on Yeong-hye’s buttocks and casts her in a erotic film. She is a cipher, seemingly aloof to everything around her but willing to act out her suddenly unconventional life. When fantasy collides with reality more unpleasant situations occur, with one of the main characters committed to a mental health facility. The story begins as viewed through the eyes of Yeong-hye’s husband Cheong, interspersed with her nightmares, continues in the narration of her unnamed brother-in-law and concludes with In-hye’s account of the aftermath.
‘The Vegetarian’ explores the tensions between stubborn traditions and changing norms in present day Seoul. Han Yeong-hye and the other women are viewed through male perspectives, often critical and complicated by the decline of sexual desire into grotesque parody. Han serves up a heady stew of social satire and feminist horror in a post-modernist jjigae of family values. This is the first book I have read in a very long time that has fictional sex in it. It’s tastefully done and easily digestable, and yet more vegetarian fare is on the menu in ‘Human Acts’, her 2014 novel about South Korea’s Tiananmen Square of 1980.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2019In skimming through the reviews for this book, there seems to be a lot of ambivalence among readers. A fair number just plain dislike this book. I found it to be a very compelling and interesting read. I agree with other readers that it is difficult to pin down the author's point. Perhaps it was her goal to leave the story open to multiple layers of interpretation. That does not bother me. I also think that this is the type of book that you can read several times at different points in your life and gain a new perspective each time. Some describe this book as an allegory. I have also read that it is based on the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo. The very short version is that Apollo pursues Daphne but she has no romantic interest in him. As he is about to catch her, Daphne asks for her father to intervene and he turns her into a tree. The book does have a lot of nature symbolism and the tree plays a prominent role toward the end. I think it is a bit of a stretch.
The Vegetarian is told from three different perspectives, none of which is from the main character Yeong-hye. Yeong-hye has a vivid and disturbing dream that causes her to become a vegetarian. The story is narrated by her husband, her brother-in-law, and her sister. Through them, we learn a bit about Yeong-hye but really never get to know her. Her husband marries her because she is bland in every way and he assumes she will not cause any problems in his life. Her brother-in-law lusts after her and she compliantly agrees to be his artistic muse. Her sister feels responsible for her and wonders if she did enough to protect her baby sister. In the first section, narrated by the husband, we read about her family's strongly negative reaction to her vegetarianism. They guilt her and try to force her to eat meat. Her father is physically abusive to her, as he has been all of their lives. Yeong-hye tries to kill herself during this family "intervention" and is hospitalized. Her husband leaves her and she slowly starves herself as a way to overcome her nightmares. She is institutionalized again and is near death. The novel ends rather abruptly with an uncertain outcome.
I really enjoyed this book and thought the writing was pitch-perfect for the story. The author has a very vivid imagination. I gave this four stars because I do have questions about what this novel was really about. To me, the major themes were family violence, mental illness and how people react to that, and abuses of power and patriarchy. The most striking aspect of this novel is the lengths that Yeong-hye will go to in order to claim herself and her power over her own body.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2024With a lovely style, this story takes you into a deep confusing drama. It merges memories with the present, and dreams with reality, letting you expect something until the very end. Confusingly to me, it didn't come.. The end left me thinking that I didn't understand the story.. Maybe I didn't, maybe it wasn't meant to be understood. Still it was cautivating
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- Katy ShaybaniReviewed in Canada on December 22, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars It’s all about freedom
This book was hard to read but it was one of the best I read recently. Highly recommended
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- DeMelReviewed in France on December 5, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful read
Spellbinding and powerful writing, story and translation and an interesting glimpse at South Korean society. Loved it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
A great book! Dark and engaging. A must read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Midway.. interesting writing style!
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