a novel Han, Kang creator author Smith, Deborah translator. text Domestic fiction. New York Hogarth 2018 2018 paperback edition. monographic eng

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199 pages ; 22 cm 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. Its 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 thats 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 Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. 2016 Man Booker International Winner. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2024 Women Fiction Korea (South) Gender identity FIC K364ve 2018 9781101906118 260203 20260203095331.0