The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang

Author:Han Kang
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Mystery, Contemporary Fiction, Historical, Reference, Genre Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense, Psychological Thrillers, Political, Thriller & Suspense, Literary Fiction, Literary, Psychological, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Cultural Heritage, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9780553448184
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2016-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

“A dream?” he repeated.

“I had a dream…and that’s why I don’t eat meat.”

“Well…what kind of dream?”

“I dreamed of a face.”

“A face?”

Seeing how utterly baffled he was, she laughed quietly. A melancholic laugh. “Didn’t I say you wouldn’t understand?”

He couldn’t ask: in that case, why did you use to bare your breasts to the sunlight, like some kind of mutant animal that had evolved to be able to photosynthesize? Was that because of a dream too?

—

He parked the car in front of her building, and they both got out.

“Thank you so much for today.”

She smiled in response. Her smile was quiet and thoughtful, not dissimilar to that of his wife. For all the world as though she were a perfectly ordinary woman. It’s true, he thought, she really is ordinary. It’s me who’s the crazy one.

She went in through the main door to the building, vanishing without bowing good-bye. He stood there and waited for the lights to come on in her room, then, when her window still hadn’t lit up, got back in the car and started the engine. In his mind he sketched her darkened room, and her sliding her naked body, still covered with the brilliant flowers, between the mattress and the quilt. That body which he had spent so many hours close beside, yet which he had touched only with the tip of his brush.

He ached.

—

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