{"title":"Fiction in Translation : Korea","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"welcome-to-the-hyunam-dong-bookshop-by-hwang-bo-reum","title":"Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere was only one thing on her mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘I must start a bookshop.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer who sees something special in Yeongju - they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hwang Bo-reum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57021254795595,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781526662286.jpg?v=1776084285"},{"product_id":"greek-lessons-by-han-kang","title":"Greek Lessons","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish - the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity - their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreek Lessons is a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57023506743627,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/image_08daeeac-c50a-4772-931c-85dbdb195c18.jpg?v=1776099513"},{"product_id":"light-and-thread-by-han-kang","title":"Light and Thread","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs and diaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the earth turns on its axis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a poem written at eight years old, Han Kang imagined a ‘gold thread’ of connection – an idea which she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Lecture. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language into the depths of other hearts, and her profound sense of an electric current which joins writer and reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth intimate and illuminating, Light and Thread is a book for all readers of Han Kang’s unique body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57023513395531,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/image_6f6f8e0e-8768-4d63-88ce-13c6e7e223d6.jpg?v=1776099526"},{"product_id":"marigold-min-laundry-by-jungeun-yun","title":"Marigold Mind Laundry","description":"\u003cp\u003eOvernight, in the village of Marigold on top of a hill, old Jieun has conjured up a magical Mind Laundry, where she cleanses painful experiences from her customer's hearts, transferring them into stains on a T-shirt and transforming them into dazzling red petals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe meet five of Jieun's customers to her laundry: a frustrated young filmmaker; a tortured social-media influencer; a distraught mother who has discovered her husband’s other family; a young woman two-timed by her lover, and Yeonghui, a victim of bullying, who works as a delivery man to escape his pain in routine.\/After washing away their pain and ironing out their creases, Jieun discovers an astonishing revelation about memory, pain and moving on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we laugh, wonder and grow with the vivid characters in this book, MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY shows how we too can tap into the positivity and magic that lies in us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich bad memories would you like to wash away?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jungeun Yin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57023515853131,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/image_60d57265-e85e-4c17-bebe-cd07d232af5c.jpg?v=1776099532"},{"product_id":"the-trunk-by-kim-ryeo-ryeong","title":"The Trunk","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings so far, and she’s never once been in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Inji takes a job at Wedding \u0026amp; Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secretive marriage division that rents out ‘field spouses’ for a fixed period to their elite clientele. Just like a real marriage, Inji’s assignments involve a wedding, some sex and a spot of housework. It’s all tailored exactly to the client’s desires - no legal battles, no fights, no emotional baggage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn no way is Inji interested in finding real love, because accidents happen when you mistakenly assume that you are somehow special.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen one of Inji’s old husbands, a mysterious high-profile music producer, requests her back for another year of marriage, Inji’s own dark past will begin to unravel – as well as the sinister underbelly of the NM management, who will stop at nothing to preserve their reputation - and that of their wealthiest clients …\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Ryeo-ryeong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57023536103755,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/image_84361a0c-15c6-40ff-a78a-3df42545ea5a.jpg?v=1776099589"},{"product_id":"we-do-not-part-by-han-kang","title":"We Do Not Part","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseon’s house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the island seventy years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57023542362443,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/image_4298f346-1d97-4976-9f3b-960f4d4afa05.jpg?v=1776099603"},{"product_id":"dallergut-dream-department-store","title":"DallerGut Dream Department Store","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDay and night, visitors both human and animal shuffle in to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor specializes in a specific type of dream: childhood memories, food dreams, ice skating, dreams of stardom. Flying dreams are almost always sold out. Some seek dreams of loved ones who have died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Penny, an enthusiastic new hire, working at the store is the opportunity of a lifetime. As she uncovers the workings of this whimsical world, she bonds with a cast of unforgettable characters, including DallerGut, the flamboyant and wise owner, Babynap Rockabye, a famous dream designer, Maxim, a nightmare producer, and the many customers who dream to heal, dream to grow, and dream to flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA captivating story that will leave a lingering magical feeling in readers' minds, this is the first book in a bestselling duology for anyone exhausted from the reality of their daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57051555856715,"sku":"9781035412761","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781035412761.jpg?v=1776376475"},{"product_id":"miss-kim-knows-and-other-stories","title":"Miss Kim Knows, and other stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEight women. Eight stories. One reality.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in Cho Nam-Joo’s masterful, razor-sharp prose, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiss Kim Knows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged 10 to 80. Contained in each of these biographies is a microcosm of contemporary Korea, and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. As with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the fates of these eight women are the fates of women the world over. And under Cho Nam-Joo’s precise, unveiled gaze, nothing and nobody escapes scrutiny--not even herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57051555791179,"sku":"9781398522930","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781398522930.jpg?v=1776376475"},{"product_id":"no-one-writes-back-library-of-korean-literature-10","title":"No One Writes Back","description":"\u003cp\u003eCommunication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or even invent nicknames for them—he assigns them numbers. There's 239, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there's 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; and 32, who's already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: \"A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people.\" No one writes back, of course, but that doesn't mean that there isn't some hope that one of them will, someday...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57051555955019,"sku":"9781564789600","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781564789600.jpg?v=1776376475"},{"product_id":"human-acts","title":"Human Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003eGwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57051556217163,"sku":"9781846275975","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781846275975.jpg?v=1776376476"},{"product_id":"the-vegetarian-a-novel","title":"The Vegetarian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International PrizeHe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57562569343307,"sku":"9781846276033","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781846276033.jpg?v=1781273151"},{"product_id":"to-the-moon","title":"To the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A zeitgeisty rags-to-riches tale' DAILY MAIL\u003cbr\u003e'An off-beat slice-of-life novel' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their 'average' employee report cards, the incompetence of their male team leader and a mutual longing for financial freedom amid mediocre raises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEun-sang, the eldest of the group, is always looking for ways to earn extra money, but faces trouble at work after she opens a mini mart at her desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJisong, the youngest, dreams of a perfect romance with her Taiwanese boyfriend and spends her low salary on trips to Taipei.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Dahae searches endlessly for a better apartment - albeit one she can actually afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life's savings in cryptocurrency. What's more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket . . . to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships - and their futures - soon hangs in the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat readers are saying:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A propulsive story that kept me on the razor wire of anxious and hopeful'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book was like no other'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Bittersweet and deeply relatable ... A must-read'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57584809509195,"sku":"9781526685735","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781526685735.jpg?v=1781529039"},{"product_id":"pachinko-the-new-york-times-bestseller","title":"Pachinko","description":"\u003cp\u003eA victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* The million-copy bestseller*\u003cbr\u003e* National Book Award finalist *\u003cbr\u003e* One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *\u003cbr\u003e* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Min Jin Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57584876093771,"sku":"9781838930509","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781838930509.jpg?v=1781529413"},{"product_id":"kim-jiyoung-born-1982","title":"Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982","description":"\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung has started acting strangely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is depressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is mad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is her own woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is every woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century and raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kang's The Vegetarian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57870630224203,"sku":"9781471184307","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781471184307.jpg?v=1784111142"},{"product_id":"chinatown","title":"Chinatown","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of the best short stories by Oh Jung-hee, one of South Korea’s most influential writersIn this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among mundane violences, collisions with adult sexuality and the American occupation; in ‘The Garden Party’ a woman grapples with her conflicting identities of wife, mother and writer at an alcohol-fuelled gathering. Throughout a career spanning six decades, Oh Jung-hee has drawn comparisons to Alice Munro, Virginia Woolf, and Joyce Carol Oates, and is assuredly a trailblazing writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oh Jung-hee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57905333797195,"sku":"9780241744369","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9780241744369.jpg?v=1784553181"},{"product_id":"song-for-another-home","title":"Song for Another Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful and expansive story of one family separated by the Korean War, for fans of Pachinko and Homegoing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1950, Pyongyang. Oksoon's father - confident that the war is over - has left for Seoul in search of opportunity. There is nothing to do but wait, until the Chinese army attacks and forces Oksoon, her mother and her brother to flee southward themselves. But the journey is dangerous, and wartime makes enemies of even the kindest of friends.Meanwhile, Oksoon's cousin Junho has found uncertain refuge in a struggling orphanage near the southern coast. When the orphanage director's rich niece arrives, harbouring a secret, Junho must choose between his duty and his dreams if they are all to survive.Full of heart and rich in history, Song for Another Home is an unforgettable portrait of resilience, courage, friendship and love that endures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57912000577867,"sku":"9781805227137","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781805227137.jpg?v=1784636208"},{"product_id":"the-vegetarian","title":"The Vegetarian","description":"\u003cp\u003eYeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker, she is a dutiful wife. But their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, commits a shocking act of subversion: she refuses to eat meat. Thus begins a disturbing and thrilling psychological drama about taboo, desire, rebellion and fantasy,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Vegetarian is a haunting masterpiece about one woman's desire for another mode of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023849361739,"sku":"9781803510057","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781803510057.jpg?v=1785765763"}],"url":"https:\/\/paperwing.co.uk\/collections\/fiction-in-translation-korea.oembed","provider":"Paperwing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}