By Han Kang
ISBN-10: 1846276292
ISBN-13: 9781846276293
ISBN-10: 1846276950
ISBN-13: 9781846276958
From the winner of the fellow Booker overseas Prize for The Vegetarian
Both the main autobiographical and the main experimental e-book so far from South Korean grasp Han Kang. Written whereas on a writer's residency in Warsaw, a urban palpably scarred by way of the violence of the earlier, the narrator unearths herself haunted by means of the tale of her older sister, who died a trifling hours after beginning. A fragmented exploration of white issues - the swaddling bands that have been additionally her shroud, the breast milk she didn't dwell to drink, the clean web page on which the narrator herself makes an attempt to reconstruct the tale - spread in a powerfully poetic distillation. As she walks the unusual, snow-streaked streets, coated through constructions previously obliterated within the moment global battle, their identities blur and overlap because the narrator wonders, 'Can I provide this lifestyles to you?'. The White Book is a ebook like no different. it's a meditation on a color, at the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our makes an attempt to graft new existence from the ashes of destruction.
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