Book
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The white book
Call Number
- FICTION HAN (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
London : Hogarth, [2019]
Physical Description
157 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. The White Book becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes. As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. The White Book--ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister--offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction."--Amazon.
Notes
"Originally published in Korean by Munhak Dongne, Seoul in 2016"--Title page verso.