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Win one of five bundles including a copy of our July Book of the Month, The Vegetarian by Han Kang and translated by Deborah Smith, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag
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To celebrate our July Book of the Month; The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, we are giving you the chance to win a copy of the novel and an exclusive, limited-edition, money-can’t-buy Booker Prize tote bag. We have five bundles to give away.
Fraught, disturbing, and beautiful, Han Kang’s novel about is about shame and desire, and our faltering attempts to understand the lives of others. Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people living in modern day South Korea. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. But then Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, commits a shocking act of subversion. As her rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, Yeong-hye spirals further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming – impossibly, ecstatically – a tree.
The Booker Prize tote bags, which are not available to buy, are designed by Leanne Shapton, who is the first art editor for the New York Review of Books, an author and illustrator, as well as having been a judge for the Booker Prize in 2018.
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the question below and enter your details below by 12:00 BST (British Summer Time) on Monday July 24 2023. This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world.
This competition is a free draw, with only one entry allowed per person, and we reserve the right to disqualify any entries where we suspect one person has used a number of different email addresses. Use or attempted use of any automated or other non-manual entry methods is prohibited.
The draw is governed by our general rules for competitions, available here, but the following specifics also apply (and take precedence should there be any contradiction or ambiguity):