The author of The Vegetarian – and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 – talks about the impact of winning the International Booker Prize in 2016, how the novel has been received worldwide and why it questions what it means to be human
Book of the Month: The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
Book of the Month: The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
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In 2016, The Vegetarian won the International Booker Prize, the first time the award was given to a single book
Upon its win, the International Booker Prize judges said it was a book that had an ‘uncanny blend of beauty and horror at every turn’ and that it ‘will linger long in the minds, and maybe the dreams, of its readers’.
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The Vegetarian
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2016
- By
- Han Kang
- Translated by
- Deborah Smith
- Published by
- Portobello Books
Fraught, disturbing, and beautiful, Han Kang’s novel is about shame and desire, and our faltering attempts to understand the lives of others
