About the Book: The Vegetarian by Han Kang, Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in
Literature
Yeong Hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with
moderate ambitions and mild manners, she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The
acceptable flat line of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a
more plant-like existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque
recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of
and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong Hye s decision is a shocking act
of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and
frightening forms, leading her bland husband