It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.

It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android.

GenreLiterature - Korean literature - Contemporary fictionįrom the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. Read The White Book by Han Kang with a free trial.

It is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction. As she walks the unfamiliar, snow-streaked streets, lined by buildings formerly obliterated in the Second World War, their identities blur and overlap as the narrator wonders, ‘ Can I give this life to you ? ‘. A fragmented exploration of white things – the swaddling bands that were also her shroud, the breast milk she did not live to drink, the blank page on which the narrator herself attempts to reconstruct the story – unfold in a powerfully poetic distillation. Happy March This month we’re reading Han Kang’s The White Book, which combines fiction, essays and poetry into a rumination on life and death. Written while on a writer’s residency in Warsaw, a city palpably scarred by the violence of the past, the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister, who died a mere two hours after birth. From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarianīoth the most autobiographical and the most experimental book to date from South Korean master Han Kang. Han Kang's new novel isn't quite a novel it's a gorgeous, hard-to-categorize series of reflections, themed around the color white, on grief, mourning and what it means to remember those we've.