![]() ![]() The Vegetarian is hypnotically strange, sad, beautiful and compelling. an ingenious, upsetting, and unforgettable novel - Publishers Weekly (starred review) its crushing climax, a phantasmagoric yet emotionally true moment that's surely one of the year's most powerful. Exquisite - Eimear McBride, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author * A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing *Įntrancing and tense. will be hard to beat - Daniel Hahn * Guardian *Ī strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored. Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience. It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, startling colours and disturbing questions. It's a bracing, visceral, system-shocking addition to the Anglophone reader's diet. Mind-blowing - Eileen Battersby * Irish Times * A work of savage beauty and unnerving physicality. Most of all, it is about the emptiness and rage of discovering there is nothing to be done when all hope and comfort fails. It is about escape and how a dreamer takes flight. is more than a cautionary tale about the brutal treatment of women: it is a meditation on suffering and grief. The Vegetarian quickly settles into a dark, menacing brilliance that is similar to the work of the gifted Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa in its devastating study of psychological pain. The writing throughout is precise and spare, with not a word wasted. ![]()
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