Following my post here
https://c.im/@jemmesedi/115483897308266747
I got hold of a copy of "The Vegetarian" and finished it this afternoon.
On one level, this novel - or is it a trilogy of linked novellas? - is a critique in fiction of the repression of women in socially conservative South Korea.
Yet "The Vegetarian" is much more than that, questioning as it does our distinctions between sanity and madness, care and cruelty, and humanity and nature.
More disturbing for me than all the body horror aspects of the book was the suggestion that a supreme moment of creative expression might be inextricably bound up with cruelty, exploitation, and betrayal.
At just under two hundred pages, this is not a long read. Thanks to @isa for your recommendation!
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