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A review by peelspls
The Fruit of My Woman by Han Kang
4.0
I read the story here: https://granta.com/the-fruit-of-my-woman/
This is the story of a marriage that unravels because the wife experiences an almost supernatural transformation. As bland as that sounds, though, the story also speaks of loneliness in a way that renders the emotion into a character in the couple's marriage itself. It is almost as if there are two separate emotions who are living their lives out via the physical corporeal characters who carry them: Loneliness via the Husband and The Desire to Flee via the Wife.
The translator compares the work to Kafka's Metamorphosis, and to some degree, it is about a person becoming a tree and what the consequences of that might be.
This is the story of a marriage that unravels because the wife experiences an almost supernatural transformation. As bland as that sounds, though, the story also speaks of loneliness in a way that renders the emotion into a character in the couple's marriage itself. It is almost as if there are two separate emotions who are living their lives out via the physical corporeal characters who carry them: Loneliness via the Husband and The Desire to Flee via the Wife.
The translator compares the work to Kafka's Metamorphosis, and to some degree, it is about a person becoming a tree and what the consequences of that might be.