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The Vegetarian

Han Kang

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 2007
Originally in
Originally in Korean
Pages
Pages 190

The freezer is emptied in the night: the beef, the pork belly, the eel, the frozen dumplings, all bagged and thrown away, because a woman in Seoul has had a dream full of blood. Yeong-hye stops eating meat, and the people around her cannot bear it.

Before my wife turned vegetarian, I’d always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.
The Vegetarian, Han Kang

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