The Vegetarian
2007 • 188 pages

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Average rating3.5

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This book follows the story of a married woman , who in one day wakes up and decides that she wants to become vegetarian . the reason behind that is -Like she says- : She had a dream .
And basically this book is about her life after that , and how that decision affected her and her family .
Its told from the point of view of three people ; her husband , her brother in law and her sister.

It's a very weird book to begin with , you think it's about being a vegetarian and stuff but when you go deep into it , you realize it's not about that at all .
It's about life decisions , making a choice and how your entire life could change because of it .

I didn't fully get the meaning behind it , i think it's one of those books which you have to read more than once to fully get the idea behind it . i would categorize it as a thriller . maybe .

overall i thought this book was really good and i found out that it has a movie adaptation which i can't wait to watch . maybe tonight ! :D



Quotes I Liked :
When a person undergoes such a drastic transformation, there's simply nothing anyone else can do but sit back and let them get on with it.There's nothing wrong with keeping quiet.Perhaps the only things he truly loved were his images—those he'd filmed, or then again, perhaps only those he had yet to film.IF only one's eyes weren't visible to others, she thinks. If only one could hide one's eyes from the world.And my fav :*Or perhaps it was simply that things were happening inside her, terrible things, which no one else could even guess at, and thus it was impossible for her to engage with everyday life at the same time. If so, she would naturally have no energy left, not just for curiosity or interest but indeed for any meaningful response to all the humdrum minutiae that went on on the surface.

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