The Vegetarian, by Han Kang, follows Yeonghye, a discreet and diligent wife whose life changes when brutal nightmares wake her at night, leading her to remove all meat from her home. Set in South Korea, the novel depicts a radical metamorphosis and an act of silent resistance against human violence and intolerance, told from three different perspectives surrounding the protagonist.

Han Kang is a South Korean writer awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize for this very novel, the first South Korean author to receive the Nobel.

• Publisher: Random House
• Author: Han Kang
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 168
• Binding: Paperback
• Genre: Fiction / Korean literature

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