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The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Winner of the 2024 nobel prize in literaturewinner of the international booker prize'a strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored. Exquisite. ' eimear mcbride yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in south korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion.

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