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The white book

Author

Kang Han

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.

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