{"product_id":"be501682938447","title":"The Vegetarian","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy: Han Kang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuality: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenre: Horror, Novel, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781846276033\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSKU: BE501682938447\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePages: 185\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription: 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.\r\n\r\nFraught, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49957843927288,"sku":"BE501682938447","price":24.15,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0276\/8378\/2793\/files\/BE501682938447.jpg?v=1783779655","url":"https:\/\/bookends.ae\/nl\/products\/be501682938447","provider":"Online Book Store – Bookends","version":"1.0","type":"link"}