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Title: The VegetarianAuthor: Han Kang, Deborah Smith (translator)
Published: 2007
Language: English (translated from Korean)
Pages: 183
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
A woman considered completely ordinary by her husband suddenly stops eating meat after a bloody nightmarish dream and this leads to disturbing and devastating consequences for both her personal and familial life.
Review:
This was an odd, disturbing and slightly gruesome book.
I honestly don't really even know how to review this book and I don't really know how I feel about it. The story was quite different from what I had thought it was going to be when I started it; it digs deep into the darkest part of humanity and insanity. It was macabre, alarming and fascinating.
The writing is really good and there were some sentences that I just ended up reading over and over, because I found them so compelling. There's a quietness to the way this story is told which makes everything that's happening all the more sinister.
All of that being said, I'm not sure if I really liked this. There are parts where I feel like the story slips a bit, especially towards the end, and I just... I can't pinpoint what it is, but I felt like there was something missing here. The further into the story I got, the less interest I had.
I think I need to mull this one over a bit. I'm intrigued to read more of this authors work though!
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