The Vegetarian A Novel, Ausgezeichnet: Man Booker International Prize, 2016, Nominiert: PEN Translation Prize, 2017

Grotesque and amazing both at once

Bewertung am 07.09.2017
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She is the embodiment of the average person. Married to a man out of practical reasons and working at an office. Neither is she pretty nor is she ugly. She is living an absolutely average life in South Korea. One day seemingly out of the blue she decides to stop eating meat. Her behavior gets weirder every day. Her family thinks her completely crazy and admits her to an asylum after she tried to kill herself at a family occasion. From this point on Han Kangs’ story “the vegetarian” becomes more and more absurd, grotesque and at times even disgusting. The line between normality and insanity blurs and in the end you won’t even know for yourself what’s “normal” anymore. Kang persuades with a great spelling style that reminds of Kafka. A story with great depths and a lot of surprises. A story you’ve been waiting for without knowing it.

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Bewertung am 28.01.2025
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Die gebundene Ausgabe von diesem Buch hat eine unfassbar schlechte Qualität. Die einzelnen Seiten sind nicht gleich groß, sodass einige weiter abstehen als andere. Sowas habe ich bisher bei keinem Buch erlebt.