VegetarianKang Han, Deborah Smith
Vegetarian
by Kang Han, Deborah Smith · first published 2023
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…Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem (reread) - Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson - The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson - The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut - Embassytown by China Mieville - The Vegetarian by Han Kang - Perchance to Dream (stories) by Charles Beaumont - Highrise by J.G. Ballard - In a Glass Darkly and Other Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu - The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling (checkout…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗For an interesting mix of tenses, I suggest "The Vegetarian" by Han Kang. It has two chapters in the past tense and one in the present tense, all by different narrators.
on “Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)” ↗Deborah Smith translated her biggest works (The Vegetarian & Human Acts). In fact, her translation arguably single-handedly led to Han Kang winning the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, which then made her popular outside Korea. The translations have been…
on “South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize” ↗