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jokoc 's review for:
The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
So... Personally this was more like 3 rather than a four-star rating.
Then why 4. Because this is a well-written, interesting book that gives an inside to a culture, the food, the family, the taboos, the life and expectations... I enjoyed the fact that we never get the perspective of the main character (only in few chapters of the first part) while we learn about her and her state of mine from the perspective of three other characters. The book also has a nice message, although it is served at the end.
Subjective, as my own reading experience, this was a story that hooked me up on the mystery of one being a vegetarian and the changes withing the protagonist, while fighting her family and husband of remaining one. Then it went in a completely different direction that was nothing like what I loved in the first part of the book (the perspective of the husband). Because of that I slowly lost interest in what followed and disliked the ending (not the message).
Then why 4. Because this is a well-written, interesting book that gives an inside to a culture, the food, the family, the taboos, the life and expectations... I enjoyed the fact that we never get the perspective of the main character (only in few chapters of the first part) while we learn about her and her state of mine from the perspective of three other characters. The book also has a nice message, although it is served at the end.
Subjective, as my own reading experience, this was a story that hooked me up on the mystery of one being a vegetarian and the changes withing the protagonist, while fighting her family and husband of remaining one. Then it went in a completely different direction that was nothing like what I loved in the first part of the book (the perspective of the husband). Because of that I slowly lost interest in what followed and disliked the ending (not the message).