![]() In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book offers a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and of our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction. From trying to imagine her mother’s first time producing breast milk to watching the snow fall and meditating on the impermanence of life, she weaves a poignant, heartfelt story of the omnipresence of grief and the ways we perceive the world around us. Han Kang's new novel isn't quite a novel it's a gorgeous, hard-to-categorize series of reflections, themed around the color white, on grief, mourning and what it means to remember those we've. Through lyrical, interconnected stories, she grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, attempting to make sense of her older sister’s death using the color white. While on a writer’s residency, a nameless narrator focuses on the color white to creatively channel her inner pain. one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we’ve lost.”-NPR ![]() A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political” ( The New York Times Book Review) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian.A recipient of the Yi Sang Literary Award, the Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Manhae Prize for Literature, she is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize Human Acts an. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. ![]()
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