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The White Book

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English

By (author): Han Kang

Translated by: Deborah Smith

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018 From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016 From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts, this is a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life. See more
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 16 Jan 2025

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781803512020

About Han Kang

Han Kang was born in Gwangju South Korea and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize the Today's Young Artist Award and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian her first novel to be translated into English was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello 2016) and The White Book (Portobello 2017). She is based in Seoul. Deborah Smith's translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang The Vegetarian and Human Acts and two by Bae Suah A Greater Music and Recitation. In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She tweets as @londonkoreanist.

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