The vegetarian
(eAudiobook)

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[Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda audio, 2018.
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eAudiobook
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Unabridged ed.
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9781489454348
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Published
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda audio, 2018.
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
ISBN
9781489454348

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Downloadable eAudiobook.
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Fiction.
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Duration: 05:15:36.
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Read by Janet Song.
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Read by Stephen Park.
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Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree. Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
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Adult.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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