Han Kang, winner of the Man Booker International 2016 – podcast interview | Man Booker International prize 2016

As Han Kang’s The Vegetarian becomes the first single novel to win the revamped Man Booker International prize, the South Korean author explains how her delicate and painful fable of a woman who gives up food means different things to different cultures.

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The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello)

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