The White Book: A Novel

ISBN: 0525573062

Author: Kang, Han

Condition: Used

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.-from the Nobel Prize citationSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of The VegetarianStunningly beautiful. . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those weve lost.-NPRShortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kangs The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sisters death, who died in her mothers arms just a few hours after she was born.In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book is a letter from Kang to her sister, offering a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, and of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit.