Yeong-hye and her husband had lived an ordinary life, but when splintering, graphic images start haunting her thoughts, she decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. The vegetarian is an allegorical novel about modern-day South Korea and also a story of shame, obsession, and our faltering attempts to understand others.
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Yeong-hye and her husband had lived an ordinary life, but when splintering, graphic images start haunting her thoughts, she decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. The vegetarian is an allegorical novel about modern-day South Korea and also a story of shame, obsession, and our faltering attempts to understand others.