The Vegetarian: A Novel [Audiobook] download free by Han Kang
- Listen audiobook: The Vegetarian: A Novel
- Author: Han Kang
- Release date: 2017/3/15
- Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9781846276033
- Rating: 8.89 of 10
- Votes: 632
- Review by: Zoey Padilla
- Review rating: 8.57 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/17
- Duration: 2H21M23S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Shorten, Musepack, MPEG-4 SLS, WAV, FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, WMA (compression IMG, CHM, ZIP, LZMA, RAR, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M7S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 flatline 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 to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction In Translation
- Download servers: Toorgle, KATCR, BitShare, FreakShare, Mediafire, Microsoft OneDrive. Compressed in IMG, CHM, ZIP, LZMA, RAR, DMG
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 8.84 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x11mm
- Weight: 140g
- Printed by: Portobello Books Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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