The Vegetarian Seamus Deane In The Second Summer of

In The Second Summer of Love

This imaginative cultural memoir

and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything

This silk-bound hardback contains magnificent illustrations from Persian manuscripts that complement the text and bring out its timeless beauty

'An enchantress

The Vegetarian Seamus Deane In The Second Summer ofYeong hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker, she is a dutiful wife. But their marriage is interrupted when Yeong hye, seeking a more 'plant like' existence, commits a shocking act of subversion: she refuses to eat meat. Thus begins a disturbing and thrilling psychological drama about taboo, desire, rebellion and fantasy, The Vegetarian is a haunting masterpiece about one woman's desire for another mode of existence.