I always loved Korean mystery horrors when it comes to movies or TV shows. This is my first first reading of a Korean horror novel. This had me intrigued in all ways. The flow of the story the built-up of suspense of wanting to see the climax which was spread throughout the whole story but never just one climaxed point. I cannot wait to read other works of Han Kang.

Young-hae's husband marries her because he thought she would be the most suitable for the wife's role that he thinks how it should be: someone who would cook and clean and put food on the table and will go quietly with life without making a fuss. Much to his horror, One-day Young-hae decides to turn vegetarian because of a bizarre dream she had. From that moment onwards the lives of the characters around Young-hae and herself are not the same. Young-hae's sudden vegetarianism does not stop at that point she becomes hysterical and obsessed with anything to do with trees and plants and attempts to think of herself as a plant. I loved how the story is told in three parts and the main character in each part is a different character around Young-hae, to tell the same unsettling story. The first story is by her husband which was told in first person POV and the two other stories by Young-hae's brother-in-law and her sister, In-hae; both told in third person point of view. It was a mystery to me as to why only the husband's POV was told in first-person.

Han Kang meticulously delves into the topics that are common in Korean society but the ones everyone ignores, such as domestic abuse, rape, gender roles, male supremacy, child abuse, mental illnesses, and suicides. We get to see how all these small details built up to a part of the reason why all this is happening.