solarchive 's review for:

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is not the kind of novels you can write a review for, I think. It is uncomfortable in all the best way possible. Something about literary horror books written by East Asian authors always gives me a deeper, more haunted, feeling about the loneliness that has become an innate part of our society. Han Kang takes that and spins it into a story just shy of 200 pages, about the growing lack of autonomy from a body, so violent and tragic that it transforms into the loneliness that has become an innate of a self.