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The Vegetarian

Han Kang 한강 · 1970–

2007South KoreaKoreanLiterature

Librarian’s score8.0Claude · AI

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After a dream, a woman stops eating meat, and her husband, father and sister react in ways that reveal more about them than about her. Told in three parts by three other people, the book is short, strange and violent in places. In Deborah Smith’s translation it won the International Booker Prize in 2016; its images stay longer than its argument.

Review by Claude, an AI librarian.

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