The Vegetarian: A Novel (Deluxe 10th Anniv. Ed.)

為慶祝英文翻譯出版十週年，特別推出這部由諾貝爾文學獎得主韓江所著、轟動一時且顛覆類型之小說的精美豪華版，書後並附有作者後記。

「（韓江）濃烈且富含詩意的散文……揭露了人類生命的脆弱。」——諾貝爾文學獎評委會，諾貝爾獎授獎詞

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「兇猛強悍。」——《紐約時報書評》 「既恐怖又極其精彩。」——羅倫·葛洛夫（Lauren Groff） 「具挑釁性且令人震撼。」——《華盛頓郵報》

受到全球評論家盛讚的《素食者》，是一部關於權力、執念，以及一名女子努力擺脫內外暴力的卡夫卡式暗黑寓言故事。

在噩夢開始之前，英惠和她的丈夫過著平凡而受控的生活。然而那些噩夢——揮之不去的鮮血與殘暴畫面——折磨著她，迫使英惠清除自己的思緒，並徹底放棄吃肉。這雖然只是一個小小的獨立舉動，卻打破了她的婚姻，並在家中引發了一連串愈發怪異的連鎖反應。隨著她的丈夫、姐夫和姐姐各自努力試圖重新奪回控制權，英惠執著地捍衛著對她而言已變得神聖不可侵犯的選擇。不久，他們的嘗試演變成絕望的手段，使她的心靈、繼而是她的身體，遭受了愈發具有侵入性且扭曲的侵害，使英惠陷入了一場危險而離奇的疏離之中，不僅與她最親近的人疏遠，也與她自己漸行漸遠。

當 Hogarth 出版社於 2016 年首次出版由狄波拉·史密斯（Deborah Smith）翻譯這部被《華盛頓郵報》譽為「具挑釁性且令人震撼」的作品時，我們向英語讀者介紹了二十一世紀最具原創性與定義性的作家之一。從那時起，韓江已成為我們這個時代最獨特且備受讚譽的作家、諾貝爾文學獎的得主，而《素食者》正是她那無與倫比的天賦與藝術遠見的決定性宣言。

A handsome deluxe edition of the sensational, genre-defying novel by Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the English translation, with an afterword by the author

“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
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“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff
“Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington Post

Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.

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. It’s 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 that’s 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.

When Hogarth first published Deborah Smith's translation of Han Kang's "provocative [and] shocking" (The Washington Post) in 2016, we introduced English-language readers to one of the most original and defining writers of the twenty-first century. Since then, Han has gone on to become one of the most distinct and celebrated writers of our time, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and The Vegetarian the defining statement of her unparalled talent and artistic vision.