蜜芽传媒

This month the winner of the prestigious Man Booker International Prize will be announced. Weekend is featuring all six of the shortlisted books before the winner is announced. The prize gives equal recognition to the writer and translator of the winning book.

The Vegetarian, by the Korean writer Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, is a violent and darkly erotic story about a young woman who, when she gives up eating meat, sets off a series of events which tear her extended family apart, starting with her own marriage.

Weekend's Paul Henley was joined by the book's translator, Deborah Smith, in London and the book's author, Han Kang from Seoul, who told us more about the book's main character:
(Picture: Writer Han Kang and translator Deborah Smith. Credit: Deborah Smith).