Item: The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Paperback)

Item No: #017
Description: A standard sized paperback book, containg the novel The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Condition: Very Good
Type: Book
Materials: Paper
Year: 2015 (although the cover must have been printed in 2016 – see note #1 below)
Production Location: United Kingdom
Size: H195mm x W130mm
Barcode/ISBN: 9781846276033

Front Cover Text:

Winner
The
Man
Booker
International
Prize
2019

THE
VEGETARIAN HAN KANG

“An extraordinary experience”
Guardian

Spine Text:

THE VEGETARIAN HAN KANG Portobello

Back Cover Text:

A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul

“A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored… Exquisite”
Eimear McBride, Baileys Women’s Prize-winning author of A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing

“It’s a bracing, visceral, system-shocking addition to the Anglophone reader’s diet. It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, stratling colours and disturbing questions… [It] will be hard to beat”
Guardian

“So strange and vivid it left me breathless upon finishing it. I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel as mouth-wateringly poetic, or as drenched in hypnotic oddities, taboos and scandal. It seems to have been plucked out of the ether, ready-made to take us all by surprise. Exciting and compelling”
New Humanist

“The Vegetarian has a surreal and spellbinding quality. Enthralling.”
Independent

“Hypnotically strange, sad, beautiful, and compelling.
Nathan Filer, author of The Shock Of The Fall

“Elegenatly translated into bone-spare English by Deborah Smith… The Vegetarian whispers so clearly, it can be heard across the room, insistently and with devestating, quiet violence.
New Statesman

FICTION
Translated by
Deborah Smith
£7.99

www.portobellobooks.com
Cover image (c) Getty images/Siede Preis

HAN KANG
HUMAN ACTS
a novel

Notes (2026):

1. Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024
2. The Vegetarian won the Man Booker International Prize in May 2016, so this version (or at least the cover) must have been printed in either May or June 2016

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