{"product_id":"the-vegetarian-2","title":"The Vegetarian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found\nhere\n.\nYeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.\nFraught, disturbing and beautiful,\nThe Vegetarian\nis a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitabay Jaipur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44993295843551,"sku":"9781846276033_Kitabay Jaipur_14-G1","price":1136.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0302\/6927\/6291\/products\/534f617328eefab2b01e32aec1ec98ec_919ce1a5-0b1a-419c-9f46-7502f65ae110.jpg?v=1709187594","url":"https:\/\/kitabay.com\/en-sg\/products\/the-vegetarian-2","provider":"Kitabay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}