The Vegetarian: Finding an Answer
Coincidence. That’s what I recall. Reading God of Small things in 2007, a decade after it made its first publication. And today(2nd July,2017), just completed reading Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’, almost a decade after it was published. Not so proudly, I state that these two books are the only ones of my reading from the Booker Prize list. No gender bias, but both the authors turned out to be women. These funny incidences apart, The Vegetarian won the Man Booker Prize in 2016 although it was published in 2007. Not only the title, but also a brief introduction of the book arrested my attention back then, naturally due to my abrupt abstention from non vegetarian food and growing fondness for nature. The reasons for my apparent change, unconscious or subconscious were not unambiguous and thus, could not be clearly related. May be some sort of an existential crisis, one philosopher friend of mine suggested or a resurgence of the eco feminist life style that I had fantasised once....