The book follows the life of a video artist and his wife's sister. The husband from the first story has divorced her, she's living on her own. She is oddly into it, because she really likes being painted with these flowers,. Because she wants to become a plant, as i said, because she is done with humanity and all the bad stuff that humanity does to each other.
How could a dream upend your life? Would you stop eating meat? Embark on a ruinous affair? Desert your family?
Han Kang's The Vegetarian asks visceral questions about our capacity for violence and what'd be willing to give up to be rid of it.
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