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The White Book by Han Kang — shade of pale

About the Article

Article
https://www.ft.com/content/d60c6ffa-c2e3-11e7-b30e-a7c1c7c13aab
Journal
Financial Times
Issued Date
November 10, 2017
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
-
Book
The White Book
Writer
Han Kang
Translator
Deborah Smith

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 160
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

 In The White Book, the unrelinquishable nature of the past is again faced down through the lens of an early tragedy that has forever marked the narrator's family. This traumatic single event is expanded to question, in just under 130 pages, the nature of existence itself. The narrator, a writer from South Korea visiting Warsaw for a winter residency, recalls her own history, and her mother's first child, a daughter born prematurely and who died the same day.

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