[DeepL Translation - needs review] Ten years ago, in the early spring, the author wrote The Fruit of My Woman, a story about a woman who becomes a plant on a veranda and the man she lives with pots her up. The idea of writing a variation of that story someday was the genesis of this trilogy, The Vegetarian. The trilogy consists of The Vegetarian, which is a tableau, The Mongolian Spots, which won the 2005 National Book Award, and The Tree Flame. Written between 2002 and the summer of 2005, t...
