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This dream drives her down a dark path in search of an unreasonable sort of deliverance from violence. The novel's titular vegetarian, Yeong-hye, however, decides to stop eating meat simply because of a dream that has her running through a barn full of bloody meat. Many vegetarians-by-choice forgo eating meat because they don't want to contribute to such a culture of violence, particularly against animals. In an interview with Bethanne Patrick for Literary Hub, Han said that her radical novel was partially an exploration of the "(im)possibility of innocence," as well as an investigation into the nature of human violence against the rest of the world. The eerie premise explores what becomes of a person when she abandons her humanity. Korean literature now has at least a foot in the door towards broader international recognition following the 2016 Man Booker International Prize being awarded to The Vegetarian, Han Kang's chilling novel about one woman's uprooting of her own being. 188 pgs.įor the longest time, literary works from Korea have been relatively underappreciated by the rest of the world, partly due to lack of translation. Han Kang (author), Deborah Smith (translator), The Vegetarian, Hogarth, 2016. Becoming Inanimate: Han Kang's The Vegetarian