The Vegetarian by Han Kang - A Book Review

I was not ready for this book. When I started it, I had no clue that it would be this graphic and violent.

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

You would definitely be able to find it to resonate with something which is deeply personal to you. A feeling of suffocation inside when you realise you are not doing certain things, most things for yourself, the way you like but instead just to fit in a certain mould. That sinking feeling when you will realise that you might have dreams but still you are not free to pursue them and even if you want try to break the societal imposition of what is acceptable, people will feed it you through by force and if required through your nose. 

It just makes you feel like screaming loudly for no reason at all or may be just to let off your chest all the reasons there are. Is keeping this pretense the only way to keep balance? I don't have the answers. This book makes you introspect deep.

It's not all grey, in the second part of the book the author actually played a trick on you. 

It's as if the author wants you to touch, feel and taste freedom. Revel in it. Until you let down all your defense and cross the boundaries of right and wrong. When you actually Experience art and beauty, in that moment you realise morality is not applicable to it.

Author crosses the boundaries of right and wrong so many times and so vigorously that you physically feel the violence of it all. Completed first half the book in a day and then took ages to see the rest through. This is indeed a masterpiece but I don't have the stomach to read it again. 

Have read this book? Were you able to taste the freedom for a while?