Hello, Dear Subscribers,
I published this article with fresh topics.

I just would like to introduce one good novel to other players today.

This is the best-seller in SK market these days.
I hope SK good novels will be introduced and translated to another countries from this chance of prize.

Here is short summary regarding this novel :)

P.S ) I'm not book-seller :p

Man Booker International winners Han Kang & Deborah Smith on The Vegetarian

- LA VEGEETARIENNE -
A BEAUTIFUL, UNSETTLING NOVEL IN THREE ACTS, ABOUT REBELLION AND TABOO, VIOLENCE AND EROTICISM, AND THE TWISTING METAMORPHOSIS OF A SOUL.

** PRIZE NEWS: 17 MAY 2016 - WINNER - THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016 **

** PRIZE NEWS: 13 APRIL 2016 - THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016, SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED **

** PRIZE NEWS, MARCH-10 : THE VEGETARIAN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE **

TRANSLATED BY DEBORAH SMITH

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.