The Vegetarian Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Han Kang
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
287

The Vegetarian by Han Kang Book Summary

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)
“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff
“Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington Post

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. 
 
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.

One of the Best Books of the Year—BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly

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Book Name The Vegetarian
Genre Fiction & Literature
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 8.64 MB

The Vegetarian (Han Kang) Book Reviews 2024

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False Advertising. This book is called “The Vegetarian”, but as shown within the first few pages, the main character is quite literally NOT a vegetarian, but a VEGAN. Can you believe this blasphemy? I highly recommend you do NOT buy this book if you do not want to be LIED to and fall victim to FALSE advertising.

More Than Horror. What starts off as creepy quickly evolves into a family dealing with grief, loss, and desires

Boring, no characters to care about. The characters are one dimensional So I didn’t have a connection to anyone. The act of becoming vegetarian was illustrated as the beginning of a mental collapse. Although I never fully understood what happened to make her so fragile. The book is written much like it is being told to you in short hand. Only continued to read because I spent money on it and kept thinking something had to happen, but nothing really did.

No Premise, No Climax, No Resolution. I'm usually not one to criticize, but there was simply no point to this story. I kept turning the pages (well, there's THAT), wondering Why, What next, and How will it end. None of those things were explained, Nothing happened Next, and there really was No Ending. Perhaps everything was lost in the translation?

Why did I read this?. Each section of this book got weirder and more uncomfortable. There is no ending. No resolution. Nothing. Worst book I’ve read in a long time.

Strange. This is a strange book that at times makes perfect sense and at other times, veers off into the incomprehensible. Entertaining and engaging but not very satisfying.

Not shocking. Just boring. Read all the way to the end, hoping for a shocking reveal or turn of events. Nothing. I can’t even say the rest of the book was worth the lame ending. Don’t even bother.

Easy to read but Question reality.. At first, i thought it was three different short story only to be surprised by how the author build the book. At first, i thought it was the story of an average vegetarian, but i guess that's why some review called it Kafka novel type. At first it looked like a normal story but it was more than that...

The vegetarian. I read it in one sitting because it was reading me. It exposed the woman who had been abused both physically and emotionally and was asked to then be the obedient quiet wife you see the downward thrust of her mind. It's written eerily poetic and it shows the tormented mind as an exotic flower. The novel may be depressing but it is one of the most truthful insights into mental illness

An okay read. Don’t see what all the fuss is about

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Summary of The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The The Vegetarian book written by Han Kang was published on 02 February 2016, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 287 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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