The Vegetarian-素食主义者

作者：Kang Han

书名：The Vegetarian《素食主义者》

名家推荐：在韩江这本The Vegetarian《素食主义者》令人不安的小说中，一位看似平常的家庭主妇——她丈夫的原话是“各方面都很平常”——在做了一个可怕的梦之后，成为了素食主义者。当这名家庭主妇的自我克制变得越来越严厉甚至荒诞时，韩江通过寓言故事的形式对顺从和颠覆进行了探讨。凭借精炼而优雅的翻译，原来的韩语变成了犀利、生动的英语，并在译文中保留了韩江敏锐的探讨，在故事中寻找关于血腥暴力世界中是否存在真正清白的答案。

英文简介：Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.