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The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
She stopped eating meat. Everyone decided it was their problem.
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you want to understand female bodily autonomy as a political act through its most extreme and quiet expression
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Yeong-hye decides to stop eating meat after a violent dream. Her husband, her father, her brother-in-law — the men around her treat this as a crisis to be managed, a defiance to be corrected, a symptom to be treated. Han Kang uses a woman's refusal to eat as a dispatch from inside the female body as contested territory — what it means to assert ownership over the most basic physical act in a society that has decided women's bodies are not their own. Booker Prize winner. One of the most formally unsettling novels on this shelf.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- South Korea • East Asia
- Voice
- Written by a South Korean author
- Themes
- Witness
