The Vegetarian
A Seoul office worker who chose his wife precisely because she was unremarkable wakes to find her emptying the freezer before dawn, and she will say only that she had a dream. Her refusal of meat widens into a refusal of nearly everything else, reported in turn by her husband, her sister's husband and her sister, and never once by her. Three linked novellas that took the International Booker in 2016 and sit at the center of the work for which Han was given the Nobel in 2024.
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