Nobelpriset i litteratur 2024 tilldelas Han Kang

Vegetarianen

Han Kang

Jag tar inte farväl

Han Kang

Levande och döda

Han Kang

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Han Kang

Vegetarian

Han Kang

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review â¿¢ Publisher's Weekly â¿¢ Buzzfeed â¿¢ Entertainment Weekly â¿¢ Time â¿¢ Wall Street Journal â¿¢ Bustle â¿¢ Elle â¿¢ The Economist â¿¢ Slate â¿¢ The Huffington Post â¿¢ The St. Louis Dispatch â¿¢ Electric Literature Featured in the New York Times selection of "e;15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century"e; A beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreamsâ¿¿invasive images of blood and brutalityâ¿¿torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. Itâ¿¿s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice thatâ¿¿s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one womanâ¿¿s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.

Greek Lessons

Han Kang

Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian. 'Breathtaking... She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with' Max PorterIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages. Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive. Translated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon. 'Another stunning gem: quiet, sharply faceted, and devastating' Kirkus'Han Kang is a writer like no other. In a few lines, she seems to traverse the entirety of human experience' Katie Kitamura