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...

الكتاب الأبيض كتاب لا مثيل له في فكرته وبنائه. إنه تأمل في اللون، في هشاشة وصلابة الروح البشرية ومحاولتنا الدؤوبة لانتزاع حياة جديدة من رماد دمار الماضي. الكتاب الأكثر قربًا من السيرة الذاتية للكاتبة...

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/

2019年も時代を映した物語が日本で、海外で、数々生まれた。そこにあるのは物語でありながら私たちの現実でもある。年末年始に読んでおきたい20冊を、本読みのプロが厳選。時代が変わる前にチェック！ 『エル・ジャポン』2月号より。

今年、海外の翻訳文学で売れに売れたものといったら、韓国文学でしょう。2018年後半に刊行されたチョ・ナムジュの『82年生まれ、キム・ジヨン』（斎藤真理子／訳）が、最近の翻訳文学では「爆発的」といっていい15万部超のヒット。初版は慎ましく4千部、しかし刷りに刷りを重ね、今年、渋谷のスクランブル交差点に建つビルに、本書の電光掲示広告が流れるのを見たときには、わたしは深い深い感慨に打たれました。(...)

The end of 2019 offers a double opportunity to review both a year and a decade in books. Covering 12 months is hard enough in our hyperspeed and atomised hi-tech age: what chance for 120? (..)

Novinka jihokorejské prozaičky a básnířky Han Kang přichází na český trh po románech Vegetariánka a Kde kvete tráva. Krátká próza nazvaná jednoduše Bílá kniha se však od předchozích dvou titulů zásadně liší. Zatímco první dvě knihy, díky jejichž anglickým překladům pětačtyřicetiletá Kang prorazila...

Another decade has come and — nearly — gone, so it's time to take a look back at the best books of the 2010s, before we move on to new and different things in 2020. Bustle reached out to 30 of the decade's debut authors for their opinions on the greatest books to land in stores over the last 10...

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...