The Vegetarian
5 hrs. 2 min.
Description
Han Kang’s novel “The Vegetarian,” the recipient of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize, is recognized as one of the best books of 2016 by Time, The Economist, The New York Times, Elle, and The Wall Street Journal. This is an unsettling novel about power, betrayal, cruelty, beauty, creativity, and the discovery of freedom. A beautiful and troubling audiobook about rebellion and taboo, violence and sensuality—and above all, about painful metamorphoses of the soul.
Yeong-hye and her husband led an ordinary, steady life until she began to see nightmares. Her dreams—obsessive images of blood and cruelty—torment Yeong-hye. To clear her mind, she completely rejects meat. It’s only a small act of disobedience, but it exposes the fragility of her marriage and sets off a chain of increasingly strange events. Celebrated by critics around the world, “The Vegetarian” is a dark, Kafkaesque allegory about power, obsession, and the struggle a woman wages to free herself from violence—outside and within herself.
Yeong-hye and her husband led an ordinary, steady life until she began to see nightmares. Her dreams—obsessive images of blood and cruelty—torment Yeong-hye. To clear her mind, she completely rejects meat. It’s only a small act of disobedience, but it exposes the fragility of her marriage and sets off a chain of increasingly strange events. Celebrated by critics around the world, “The Vegetarian” is a dark, Kafkaesque allegory about power, obsession, and the struggle a woman wages to free herself from violence—outside and within herself.
