by Han Kang · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439743897
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«La vegetariana» is the novel by South Korean writer Han Kang, published by Random House in paperback (168 pages, in Spanish).
After violent nightmares, Yeonghye stops eating meat and her decision bewilders those around her. That act triggers a radical metamorphosis that turns her into a symbol of resistance against violence and the conventions of a patriarchal, ultracapitalist society, in search of a purer existence, close to plant life.
Han Kang, born in Gwangju (South Korea) in 1970, received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature; this novel won the 2016 International Booker Prize. Translation by Sunnie Yoon.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Korean literature and in stories about identity, violence and transformation.
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
