To put it bluntly, this is vile.
It’s not long into this book before we are treated to graphic descriptions of a disgusting excuse for a human being raping his wife and then later, just sits and watches while his father in law beats her extremely in front of the whole family, including the young children, and then her father has her siblings restrain her in a chair while he violently smashes the dead rotting filth these people consider food into her face forcing it into her mouth.
The attitudes in this book, not only to vegetarians, vegans and their respective diets, but also to how a human being can be treated by their own family, are, quite frankly, appallingly backward and extremely vile and sickening.
I didn’t even get to a quarter of the way into this book and i was utterly sickened by it. How anyone can think that this is what people wish to read for entertainment is quite beyond my comprehension — they, and those that are entertained by this vile filth, should be ashamed of themselves.
Is this what people are really like in South Korea? I have no idea, but this really doesn’t do South Korean’s any favours whatsoever.
How this won a Man Booker prize i have no idea. That people actually carried on reading this after the rapes and the extreme domestic abuse is quite beyond me. Some people obviously have no empathy, because if you have any empathy at all, you would be sickened to the core and throw this book away, not give it an award.
This should also have a warning label very clearly portrayed on the cover — THIS BOOK CONTAINS GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF RAPE AND EXTREME DOMESTIC ABUSE.
The only award this book deserves: Deleted.
Kang’s Page