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The White Book
Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The White Book
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian comes a stunning meditation on the colour white; about light, about death and about ritual
WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, this is a stunning meditation on the colour white; about light, about death and about ritual.
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From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth, and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty, and strangeness of life.
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
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The White Book by Han Kang receives praise for its profound exploration of grief, life, and death, delivered through evocative and intimate language. Several reviewers highlight its poetic nature, likening it to a secular prayer book filled with haunting and beautiful imagery. Translated seamlessly by Smith, the work is appreciated for its lyrical prose and the delicate balance between pain and beauty. Critics commend Han Kang's innovative style and emotional depth, describing the book as both a philosophical lament and a testament to the power of memory.
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ISBN: 9781846276958
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 April 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Deborah Smith
- Translated by Deborah Smith
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 128
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About the Author
Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, 2017). She is based in Seoul.
Deborah Smith's translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang, The Vegetarian and Human Acts, and two by Bae Suah, A Greater Music and Recitation. In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She tweets as @londonkoreanist.
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