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    "subtitle": "by Han Kang",
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    "description": "Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize<br></br><br></br>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review \u2022 Publisher's Weekly \u2022  Buzzfeed \u2022  Entertainment Weekly \u2022  Time \u2022  Wall Street Journal \u2022  Bustle \u2022  Elle \u2022  The Economist \u2022  Slate \u2022  The Huffington Post \u2022 The St. Louis Dispatch \u2022  Electric Literature<br></br><br></br>Featured in the New York Times selection of \"15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century\" <br></br><br></br>A beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul<br></br> <br></br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams-invasive images of blood and brutality-torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that's become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br></br> <br></br>Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman's struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.",
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