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by Han Kang

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Published by Random House · Fiction · ISBN 9788439743897

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A novel by South Korean writer Han Kang, published in 2007, set in present-day Seoul and told in three parts. Yeonghye has always been a quiet, dutiful wife until, after a bloody nightmare, she decides to stop eating meat; her husband and family meet the decision with bewilderment, and her refusal will have consequences for all of them.

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For readers of contemporary literary fiction open to an uncomfortable story about the body, violence and the rules of a patriarchal society. In South Korea readers received it as very extreme and bizarre.
Why people still read it
Deborah Smith's English translation won the International Booker Prize in 2016, and Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024. Its second part had already won the Yi Sang Literary Prize in Korea, and in 2026 The Guardian placed it among the 100 best novels of all time.

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