![]() Although it’s not necessarily unusual to eat vegetarian in South Korea, it is rather unusual for someone to declare themselves vegetarian. ![]() Cheong does not take this news too kindly, especially as Yeong-hye gives him no more concrete explanation for her sudden change of diet than “I had a dream”. 3).Īll this is disrupted, however, when Yeong-hye (whom Cheong refers to only as “my wife”, never by name) suddenly decides to stop eating meat, and throws all animal products out of the house. There was no need to affect intellectual leanings in order to win her over, or to worry that she might be comparing me to the preening men who pose in fashion catalogues, and she didn’t get worked up if I happened to be late for one of our meetings (p. The passive personality of this woman in whom I could detect neither freshness nor charm, or anything especially refined, suited me down to the ground. The first part introduces us to a Mr Cheong, who likes a nicely ordered existence, and was pleased to have found a wife who facilitated that: Each part is told from the viewpoint of a different character – none of whom is the titular vegetarian herself. ![]() The first of Korean writer Han Kang’s books to be widely available (in Deborah Smith’s superb translation) to English-speaking audiences, The Vegetarian was originally published as three separate novellas, then as the original novel in 2007. ![]()
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