For Free-Thinking Women, Does Death Appear the Only Escape? The Vegetarian by Han Kang is not an easy novel to read, nor is it meant to be. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize, it is a sparse, unsettling and deeply symbolic work that explores autonomy, violence and the crushing weight of societal expectation, particularly as it bears down on women. At its centre is Yeong-hye, an apparently ordinary woman living in Seoul, whose quiet dec…
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