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.
Translated peerlessly by Smith, it succeeds in reflecting Hans urgent desire to transcend pain with language.'-The Guardian 'With eloquence and grace, Han breathes life into loss and fills the emptiness with this new work. 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.Īs 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 is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book. 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.
While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.įrom Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white.
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