The Vegetarian

A beautiful and troubling book about rebellion and taboos, violence and sensuality, and most importantly - about the painful metamorphoses of the soul. Yeong-hye and her husband led the most ordinary, measured life until she began to see nightmares. The dreams - obsessive images of blood and cruelty - torment Yeong-hye. To clear her mind, she completely renounces meat. This small act of defiance reveals the fragility of her marriage and sets off a chain of increasingly strange events. The critically acclaimed novel "The Vegetarian" is a dark, Kafkaesque allegory about power, obsession, and the struggle faced by a woman wishing to free herself from violence both outside and within herself.