Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • Publisher's Weekly • Buzzfeed • Entertainment Weekly • Time •
Wall Street Journal • Bustle • Elle • The Economist • Slate • The Huffington Post • The St.
Louis Dispatch • Electric Literature Featured in the New York Times selection of "15
remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st
century" A beautiful unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo violence and eroticism
and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul Before the nightmares began Yeong-hye and her
husband lived an ordinary controlled life. But the dreams-invasive images of blood and
brutality-torture her driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether.
It's a small act of independence but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an
increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband her brother-in-law and sister
each fight to reassert their control Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that's become
sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate subjecting first her mind and then her body
to ever more intrusive and perverse violations sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous
bizarre estrangement not only from those closest to her but also from herself. Celebrated
by critics around the world The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical Kafka-esque tale of power
obsession and one woman's struggle to break free from the violence both without and within
her.
