The Vegetarian by Han Kang – a weird, unsettling and tragic story about the crushing weight of conformity and social prejudice

Just finished Han Kang's The Vegetarian, a short but powerful book that received the 2024 Nobel Prize for literature. I really enjoyed it – well, maybe "enjoyed" is not the right word but it's definitely a story I'll be thinking about for a while and would love to discuss here. Given the abstract, symbolic nature [...]