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South Korean author Han Kang on her new novella The White Book

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Article
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/south-korean-author-han-kang-on-her-new-novella-the-white-book-20171126-gztbr4.html
Journal
The Sydney Morning Herald
Issued Date
December 01, 2017
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
AUSTRALIA
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
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  • English(English)

Han's older sister was born two months premature and lived less than two hours. Her young mother gave birth on her own, in a rural village, in the heart of winter, miles from a telephone.  The White Book gives the narrator's dead sister an imaginary life. "I think of her coming here instead of me," the narrator writes, "to this curiously familiar city, whose death and life resemble her own."

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