The Vegetarian

De Volkskrant

Editorial Illustration for an essay on Han Kang’s novel “The Vegetarian” (2007), which deals with trauma, alienation and our connection to the natural world. 

In the award-winning novel The Vegetarian by South Korean Han Kang, a woman wants to become a tree to escape the 'kill or be killed' dilemma. [The author of the essay] Grunberg is intrigued: should we become trees? But how?