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管他世界的壓迫與否定,她找到了唯一的出路:成為一株植物。
「我的身體需要澆水。」她的身上冒出枝葉,手上長出樹根……
唯有融入土壤,她才能萌芽重生。
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榮獲國際曼布克獎x韓江
亞洲第一位獲獎作家 探索人類內心壓抑的瘋狂與傷痕之作
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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。
英惠的姐夫是個藝術攝影師,正陷入創作的低潮。他從妻子那裡聽說小姨子英惠的臀部至今還留著胎記,突然產生了久違的靈感,身上彩繪著花朵的全裸男女交合的場景,從此鐫刻在他腦海裡。他想要在英惠的裸體上作畫,並拍攝成影片。英惠成為姐夫的模特兒之後,身上的花朵彩繪竟然讓她不再受到夢魘困擾,也重新燃起她的肉體慾望……
因為小時候一同活在被性情暴躁的父親家暴的陰影下,仁惠把照顧妹妹英惠當成這輩子的責任。然而,她內心其實痛恨著住在精神病院逐漸走向瘋狂世界、把一切丟給她的妹妹。看似開朗穩重的仁惠,也曾有過對生活萌生倦怠和絕望,拋下稚子尋死的舉動。痛苦而壓抑的她,是否能帶著掙扎在噩夢邊緣的英惠,踏上自我救贖新的旅程?
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《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。
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly
**One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)**
“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff
“Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington Post
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.
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.
A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly