Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet, and was first published as novelist in 1994. A participant of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Han has won the Man Booker International Prize, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Manhae Literary Prize. She currently works as a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
“Surreal . . . [A] mesmerizing mix of sex and violence .”—Alexandra
Alter, The New York Times
“[Han Kang] has been rightfully celebrated as a visionary in South
Korea . . . Han’s glorious treatments of agency, personal choice,
submission and subversion find form in the parable. . . .
Ultimately, though, how could we not go back to Kafka? More than
The Metamorphosis, Kafka’s journals and ‘A Hunger Artist’ haunt
this text.”—Porochista Khakpour, New York Times Book Review
“Indebted to Kafka, this story of a South Korean woman’s radical
transformation, which begins after she forsakes meat, will have you
reading with your hand over your mouth in shock.”—O: The Oprah
Magazine
“The Vegetarian has an eerie universality that gets under your skin
and stays put irrespective of nation or gender.”—Laura Miller,
Slate
“Slim and spiky and extremely disturbing . . . I find myself
thinking about it weeks after I finished.” Jennifer Weiner,
PopSugar
“It takes a gifted storyteller to get you feeling ill at ease in
your own body. Yet Han Kang often set me squirming with her first
novel in English, at once claustrophobic and transcendent.”—Chicago
Tribune
"Compelling . . . [A] seamless union of the visceral and the
surreal.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
“A complex, terrifying look at how seemingly simple decisions can
affect multiple lives . . . In a world where women’s bodies are
constantly under scrutiny, the protagonist’s desire to disappear
inside of herself feels scarily familiar.”—Vanity Fair
“Elegant . . . a stripped-down, thoughtful narrative . . . about
human psychology and physiology.”—HuffPost
“This elegant-yet-twisted horror story is all about power and its
relationship with identity. It's chilling in the best ways, so
buckle in and turn down the lights.”—Elle
“This haunting, original tale explores the eros, isolation and
outer limits of a gripping metamorphosis that happens in plain
sight. . . . Han Kang has written a remarkable novel with universal
themes about isolation, obsession, duty and desire.”—Minneapolis
Star Tribune
“Complex and strange . . . Han’s prose moves swiftly, riveted
on the scene unfolding in a way that makes this story compulsively
readable. . . . [The Vegetarian] demands you to ask important
questions, and its vivid images will be hard to shake. This is a
book that will stay with you.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Dark dreams, simmering tensions, chilling violence . . . This
South Korean novel is a feast. . . . It is sensual, provocative and
violent, ripe with potent images, startling colors and disturbing
questions. . . . Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an
extraordinary experience.”—The Guardian
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