Publisher's Synopsis
Han Jiang's "The Vegetarian", which won the International Man Booker Literary Award, resonated with readers all over the world. It is the cruelest and beautiful masterpiece. Those teenagers who mustered up the courage to face the army were the teenagers who decided to stay in the Gwangju incident. 518 The youngsters who could not be taken away that night; those youngsters who went to righteousness instead of us, and the youngsters who still shuttle around you and me like shadows. "In a world where dignity and violence coexist, the next Gwangju is very likely to appear in every corner and every generation.
