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Title The vegetarian : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
Publisher London : Hogarth, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Description 188 pages ; 22 cm
Edition First U.S. Edition.


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 EI-Adult Collection  HAN Nearby on shelf  30626002954937 04-15-18  AVAILABLE
Note "Originally published in Korean as three separate novelettes and then compiled into a novel ... Ch'aesikchuuija, published in 2007 by Changbi Publishers, Inc. This translation originally published, in somewhat different form, in Great Britain by Portobello Books, London"--Colophon.
NOTE Translated from the Korean.
Summary Deciding to renounce eating meat in the wake of violent dreams, Yeong-hye, a woman from a culture of strict societal mores, is denounced as a subversive as she spirals into extreme rebelliousness that causes her to splinter from her true nature and risk her life.
Subject Women -- Korea (South) -- Fiction.
Vegetarians -- Fiction.
Dreams -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Korea (South) -- Fiction.
Genre Psychological fiction.
Add'l Names Smith, Deborah, translator.
ADD'L TITLE Ch'aesikchuŭija. English
ISBN 9780553448184
0553448188
9781101906118