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The White Book

byHan Kang

Who is this book for? Readers interested in literary fiction that explores deep emotional themes and personal narratives.

Topics GriefResilienceFamilyMortality

MoodReflective, Melancholic

Female protagonist

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018 ‘Memory is complicated, but the colour white is not, and Kang’s painful, exquisite story… is a philosophical lament for all the shades of life in between.’ – The Irish Times Han Kang’s The Vegetarian – her mesmeric tale of authoritarian control and individual desire – claimed the Man Booker International Prize of 2016 and sealed her global recognition. Kang now returns with The White Book, a gossamer-delicate meditation on mortality and meaning. The death of the author’s own baby sister – who passed only two hours after her birth – provides the gravitational centre to a volume that similarly focuses on the white, the iconography of mourning and remembrance. Throughout, the identity of the narrator remains unknown: this is not a book of identities but, as the Guardian puts it, ‘a brilliant psychogeography of grief… The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book.’ Written in spare, tender sections, we discover the sparse intimacies of the narrator’s life; chapters vary from slivers of verse to self-contained gasps of narrative. The whole is deeply evocative, gilded as ever by Deborah Smith’s sensitive translation. In her third collaboration with the author (the second being the extraordinary Human Acts), Smith is less translator than essential interlocutor to Kang’s craft.

Language

Published on

05/04/2018

Pages

161

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781846276958

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