Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds...

»Han Kang zu lesen ist wie in einen Strudel aus Brutalität und Zärtlichkeit geworfen zu werden, aus dem man durchgeschüttelt, perplex und tief bewegt wieder auftaucht.« Doris Dörrie Ein Junge ist gestorben, und die Hinterbliebenen müssen weiterleben. Doch was ist ihnen ihr Leben noch wert? Han Kang...

July 4, 2016 After winning the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian , Han has written a harrowing second novel that traces the long-term reverberations from South Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which government troops killed anywhere between 200 and 2,000 civilians in the chaos...

From the internationally bestselling author of THE VEGETARIAN, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this...

2016 Uluslararası Man Booker Ödüllü Vejetaryen'in yazarı Han Kang'dan Çocuk Geliyor. 18 Mayıs 1980 Gwangju Kore Bak Coınğ Hi'ye 1979 yılında gerçekleştirilen suikastın ardından yeni iktidar yönetime...

Fitues i Çmimit Man Booker Prize International Një roman i bukur dhe turbullues për rebelimin dhe tabunë, dhunën dhe erotikën, si dhe metamorfozën ngatërruese të shpirtit Përpara se makthet të...

Inah has been having nightmares. Nightmares of fish bones, fractals, and a marriage that ended under some unnamed violence. Walking the night streets with a man she has known for years, whose...

リニューアル第2弾。特集「韓国・フェミニズム・日本」 Source: https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/15944946/

O Livro Branco é uma meditação sobre a cor, que começa com uma simples lista de coisas brancas: a neve, o sal, a espuma das ondas, o papel, o arroz, os cabelos dos velhos, as cobertas em que a mãe da...

韓国で100万部を超えるベストセラーとなったチョ・ナムジュ著『82年生まれ、キム・ジヨン』は、日本でも昨年に邦訳版が刊行されるや累計刷部数14万部を突破し、外国文学として稀に見る大ヒットを飛ばした。いま韓国文学は、世界の米ビルボードのヒットチャートを席巻するK-POPと同様に、世界中で大きなブームになっている。 女性差別をテーマにした『82年生まれ、キム・ジヨン』が、2016年に発生した「江南通り魔殺人事件」と、それをきっかけに起こったフェミニズム運動を背景に持つことは明らかだが、このような韓国文学における表現について、9月発売の『STUDIO VOICE』“次代のアジアへ――明滅する芸術”...

Das dünne Bändchen, das zuerst wie ein blumiger Ernährungsratgeber klingt, ist ein fast unerträgliches Buch. Die Hauptfigur Yeong-Hye hört auf, tierische Produkte zu essen - und verschwindet daraufhin langsam aus einer Welt, die sie nie wirklich gesehen und immer nur Ansprüche an sie gestellt hat.

Den förra presidenten i Sydkorea, Park Guen-hye, hade en svart lista med över 9000 kulturarbetare som hon såg som meningsmotståndare. Sedan hon avsattes 2017 råder ett öppnare offentligt samtal i landet. – Författare i Sydkorea söker en ny riktning, säger Sverigeaktuella Han Kang.

ينفر بعض منظّري كتابة الرواية من اعتماد المؤلفين على الصُّدف في أعمالهم، ويحذّر جاك مايلز بيكهام من ذلك فيقول: «تحدث المصادفات في الحياة دائمًا، ولكنها في القصة مُهلِكة، ولا سيما عندما تُسعِف المصادفة الشخصية في أن تكون في المكان المناسب وفي الوقت المناسب، أو في استراق السمع لمحادثة هاتفية حاسمة،...

تقدم الكاتبة الكورية ”هان كانغ“ حياة متخيلة لأختها الراحلة، بعد ساعتين فقط من ولادتها، في رواية بعنوان ”الكتاب الأبيض“، الصادر عن دار التنوير للنشر، وبترجمة من محمد نجيب. وترتكز أحداث الرواية حول حدث حقيقي يتجذر في ذاكرة الكاتبة. فمنذ طفولتها أخبرها والداها بأن أختًا سابقة لها، قد جاءت الحياة لوقت...

This novel is haunting, violent, moving, and utterly compelling. It's told in three parts, around a young woman named Yeong-hye, who we never hear from other than some descriptions of her terrifying dreams which led her to become a vegetarian. But she is the central character, the fulcrum for...

Honestly, in this case, I'm much more interested in reading other people's reviews of the book rather than writing my own. I just feel like there are so many layers here, so many things that need to be discussed, so many unique interpretations, so many questions...

 

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The Vegetarian by Han Kang is a South Korean novel told in three parts. Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won. She has gone on to win the Yi Sang Literary Prize (2005), Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. As of summer 2013, Han teaches creative writing at...

The Vegetarian is a very cerebral novel. And yet, it's incredibly affecting. Han Kang is able to explore dark and twisted events--and characters--in a really engaging way...

 

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“She was no longer able to cope with all that her sister reminded her of. She'd been unable to forgive her for soaring alone over a boundary she herself could never bring herself to cross, unable to forgive that magnificent irresponsibility that had enabled Yeong-hye to shuck off social...