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The Vegetarian

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內容簡介 【★2024諾貝爾文學獎、曼布克國際文學獎】Winner of 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and 2016 The International Booker Prize.首位榮獲諾貝爾文學獎與英國曼布克國際文學獎、備受國際矚目的韓國小說家韓江，探究人類內心壓抑的瘋狂與傷痕傑作。我再也沒辦法忍受肉的味道，只有植物能讓我平靜，讓我渴望就這樣倒立著，變成一棵樹吧……在夢裡，我正倒立著……突然發現從我身上冒出了枝葉，從手上長出了樹根……一直伸到地面，不斷地、不斷地……然後從兩腿之間綻放出鮮花……我應該被澆水。這些食物我不需要，我需要水。在開始不斷做著充滿殺戮和鮮血的噩夢之前，英惠只是個生活平凡至極的家庭主婦，無數失眠的夜晚和夢中恐怖的景象令她飽受折磨，有一天，她突然無法再吃肉、無法忍受肉的味道，成為了一名「素食者」，這個小小的舉動不但讓她的婚姻陷入危機，並且成為一連串失控之舉的開端。《素食者》由三個章節構成，每章分別以不同的視角刻畫行為日趨極端的素食者英惠。在她斷絕食物的過程中，融合了關於暴力、美、欲望、罪和救贖的疑問。書中出現了多種意象：絢麗的盛開花朵、直挺的陰鬱樹木、花瓣大小的藍綠色胎記、血淋淋的垂死動物與飛翔之鳥，有性的符號，卻非刻意強調煽情。作者行文如詩，捕捉瞬間掠過的情感來勾勒角色無奈又痛苦的命運，有如一則黑暗預言。(本書簡介節錄自中文版《素食者》漫遊者出版)Yeong-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. Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Han KangHan Kang, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English,was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, forthcoming 2017). She is based in Seoul.Deborah SmithDeborah Smith (translator) grew up in Doncaster. She has translated Korean books by Han Kang, Bae Suah, and Kim Haeja. In 2015 she founded Tilted Axis Press to publish anti-colonial translations from across Asia. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She has lived in north India since 2020 and is slowly learning her daughter's mother tongue. She writes on translation, whiteness, class, and sick women.

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最佳賣點 : ★2024諾貝爾文學獎、曼布克國際文學獎，南韓作家韓江《素食者》英譯本

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