{"id":887,"date":"2026-06-19T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/time\/?p=887"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:36:30","slug":"the-museum-of-everyday-objects-item-017-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/time\/2026\/06\/19\/the-museum-of-everyday-objects-item-017-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum Of Everyday Items: Item #017 – The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Paperback)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Item:<\/strong> The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Paperback)<\/p>\n

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Item No: <\/strong>#017
\nDescription: <\/strong>A standard sized paperback book, containg the novel The Vegetarian by Han Kang
\nCondition: <\/strong>Very Good
\nType:<\/strong> Book
\nMaterials: <\/strong>Paper
\nYear: <\/strong>2015 (although the cover must have been printed in 2016 – see note #1 below)
\nProduction Location: <\/strong>United Kingdom
\nSize: <\/strong>H195mm x W130mm
\nBarcode\/ISBN:<\/strong> 9781846276033<\/p>\n

Front Cover Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner
\nThe
\nMan
\nBooker
\nInternational
\nPrize
\n2019<\/p>\n

THE
\nVEGETARIAN\u2028HAN KANG<\/p>\n

\u201cAn extraordinary experience\u201d
\nGuardian<\/p>\n

Spine Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE VEGETARIAN HAN KANG Portobello<\/p>\n

Back Cover Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul<\/p>\n

\u201cA strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored\u2026 Exquisite\u201d
\nEimear McBride, Baileys Women\u2019s Prize-winning author of A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bracing, visceral, system-shocking addition to the Anglophone reader\u2019s diet. It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, stratling colours and disturbing questions\u2026 [It] will be hard to beat\u201d
\nGuardian<\/p>\n

\u201cSo strange and vivid it left me breathless upon finishing it. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve 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\u201d
\nNew Humanist<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vegetarian has a surreal and spellbinding quality. Enthralling.\u201d
\nIndependent<\/p>\n

\u201cHypnotically strange, sad, beautiful, and compelling.
\nNathan Filer, author of The Shock Of The Fall<\/p>\n

\u201cElegenatly translated into bone-spare English by Deborah Smith\u2026 The Vegetarian whispers so clearly, it can be heard across the room, insistently and with devestating, quiet violence.
\nNew Statesman<\/p>\n

FICTION
\nTranslated by
\nDeborah Smith
\n\u00a37.99<\/p>\n

www.portobellobooks.com
\nCover image (c) Getty images\/Siede Preis<\/p>\n

Read more<\/p>\n

HAN KANG
\nHUMAN ACTS
\na novel<\/p>\n

Notes (2026):<\/p>\n

1. <\/strong>Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024<\/em>
\n2. <\/strong>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<\/em><\/p>\n

The Collection<\/h1>\n

There are 36 objects in The Museum Of Everyday Items<\/a><\/em>. To learn more about the items in the collection, please click on the images below.<\/p>\n

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