num_pages: 188
description: Before the nightmare Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more plant-like existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms scandal abuse and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hyeimpossibly ecstatically tragicallyfar from her once-known self altogether.
language: English
title: The Vegetarian
publisher: Hogarth