Han Kang The vegetarian was the novel that won the international Booker Prize in 2016. The book has been much talked about even earlier. When it was first published in 2007 in South Korea bewildered and shocked the readers. Not least to Han Kang was a exalted and serious poet – that she wrote a novel about a woman who was about to turn into a tree, and if the plants sexual life, confused.
When book is published in English translation by Deborah Smith (that may also take part of the price) was receiving more unequivocal espousal. The vegetarian, which comes out in Swedish translation next year with the title The vegetarian , is described as violent and surreal, both rampant and extremely controlled. Already this autumn given one of her other novels published in Swedish, Live and dead , the story of a massacre.
Previously it International Booker Prize one completely authorship, at least partially, would be available in English. New
If the price is to lift the translated literature remains to be see. But the choice of Han Kang points to a potentially more exciting price, one that does not need to see the entire oeuvre, but can highlight a novel that should reach readers here and now.
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