WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: this hauntingmasterpiece is a beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts which won the ManBooker International Prize has become a modern classic.

A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellionand taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul.Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBELPRIZE IN LITERATURE.WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THEINTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ‘

A strange, painfully tender exploration of thebrutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored… Exquisite’Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people – dutiful wife andmild-mannered office worker.

One day, prompted by grotesque recurringnightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, wherevegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, itis a shocking act of subversion.

Yeong-hye’s passive rebellion rapidlymanifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism toattempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all thewhile she spirals further into her fantasies…

Disturbing and beautiful byturns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; atale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.

About The Author

Han Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Gwangju, South Korea, she moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English,was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, 2017). She is based in Seoul.