The Vegetarian by Han Kang

 

Mystifying novel. There is power in Kang's prose - the story follows a young woman who gives up eating meat and ends up losing her mind - but the three part structure diffuses that power somehwat.

In the first part, she gives up meat and is denounced and abused by her husband and family.

In the second part, her brother in law features her in a video series after painting her body (and his own) with flower parts and having sex with her.

In the third part, her sister (whose husband seduced her in part two) visits her in a mental hospital where she is deteriorating.