Asian Writers Reading Challenge: Book 2- The Vegetarian

Sharon D
3 min readJan 17, 2021

Book 2 of the Asian Writers Reading Challenge is The Vegetarian by Han Kang. This book introduced Western audiences, like myself, to the South Korean writer. Winning the Man Book Prize for fiction in 2016, I chose this as book #2 for the challenge.

It’s the middle of January, which means winter is at its midpoint. The Vegetarian is a trippy, almost dreamlike nightmare…

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Sharon D

Canadian traveller and reader, somewhere between page one and the end. Not my day job.