2000 · Fiction, Short StoriesThe Fruit of My Woman
내 여자의 열매In this seminal eight-story collection by Nobel laureate Han Kang, characters confront alienation, domestic silence, and deep psychological wounds in contemporary urban Korea. The acclaimed title piece chronicles a suffocated apartment-dwelling wife who gradually metamorphoses into a potted flowering plant, laying the surreal thematic foundation for the author's later masterwork The Vegetarian.
