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    <title>Ch'aesikchuŭija. English</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Han, Kang</namePart>
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  <genre authority="">Psychological fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="">Domestic fiction.</genre>
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    <place>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Granta Publications</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2018</dateIssued>
    <copyrightDate encoding="marc">2007</copyrightDate>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>183 pages ; 21 cm</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.</note>
  <note>The vegetarian' was originally published in Korean as three separate novelettes and then compiled into a novel 'Chaesikjuuija', published in 2007 by Changbi Publishers, Inc." - verso title page.</note>
  <note>First published in trade paperback by Portobello Books, an imprint of Granta Publications, in 2015; First paperback edition published by Portobello Books, an imprint of Granta Publications in 2015; Paperback edition with amendments to the translation published by Granta Books 2018; This paperback edition published by Granta Books 2023" - verso title page. 
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  <note>Winner of the International Booker Prize" -</note>
  <note>Original edition: 2015</note>
  <note>Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2016.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Self-actualization (Psychology) in women</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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    <topic>Self-realization in women</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Vegetarianism</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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    <topic>Women</topic>
    <geographic>Korea (South)</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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