The Vegetarian
5 hrs. 46 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Han Gang
Author
Han Gang
Narrator
Alexey Dankov
Narrator
Igor Sergeev
Narrator
Elena Delver
Narrator
Ksenia Brzhezovskaya
Description
A beautiful and unsettling book about rebellion and taboo, violence and sensuality—and above all about painful metamorphoses of the soul.
Ёнхе and her husband led the most ordinary, measured life until she began to see nightmares. Dreams—obsessive images of blood and cruelty—torment Ёнхе. To clear her mind, she completely gives up meat. It’s only a small act of disobedience, but it exposes the fragility of her marriage and sets off a chain of events that become stranger and stranger.
The critic-favored novel “The Vegetarian” is a dark, Kafkaesque allegory about power, obsession, and the struggle a woman wages to free herself from violence both outside and inside her own being.
Ёнхе and her husband led the most ordinary, measured life until she began to see nightmares. Dreams—obsessive images of blood and cruelty—torment Ёнхе. To clear her mind, she completely gives up meat. It’s only a small act of disobedience, but it exposes the fragility of her marriage and sets off a chain of events that become stranger and stranger.
The critic-favored novel “The Vegetarian” is a dark, Kafkaesque allegory about power, obsession, and the struggle a woman wages to free herself from violence both outside and inside her own being.
