{"product_id":"the-vegetarian-paperback","title":"The Vegetarian (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE:\u003c\/span\u003e this haunting\nmasterpiece is a beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts which won the Man\nBooker International Prize has become a modern classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion\nand taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul.\nWinner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL\nPRIZE IN LITERATURE.WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE\nINTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE '\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA strange, painfully tender exploration of the\nbrutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite'\nEimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and\nmild-mannered office worker. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOne day, prompted by grotesque recurring\nnightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, where\nvegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it\nis a shocking act of subversion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eYeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly\nmanifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to\nattempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the\nwhile she spirals further into her fantasies... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDisturbing and beautiful by\nturns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a\ntale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHan Kang\u003c\/span\u003e was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Gwangju, South Korea, she moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"\"\u003eThe Vegetarian, \u003c\/span\u003eher first novel to be translated into English,was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"\"\u003eHuman Acts \u003c\/span\u003e(Portobello, 2016) and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"\"\u003eThe White Book \u003c\/span\u003e(Portobello, 2017). She is based in Seoul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45108256342223,"sku":"9781846276033","price":19.3,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_b39d0399-00aa-487b-9c14-f0793770d7be.webp?v=1779938641","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/the-vegetarian-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}