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The white book

"Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang's The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister's death, who died in her mother's arms just a few hours after she was born ... The White Book is a letter from Kang to her sister, offering a m...

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Main Author: Han, Kang, 1970-
Other Authors: Smith, Deborah, 1987- (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Korean
Published: London : Hogarth, 2025.
Subjects:
Suffering > Fiction.
Resilience (Personality trait) > Fiction.
Color > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:"Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang's The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister's death, who died in her mother's arms just a few hours after she was born ... 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"--Publisher's website.
Physical Description:147 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:0525573070
9780525573074
Author Notes:Han Kang was born on November 27, 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She is an author. Her novels in English include The Vegetarian and Convalescence. Her works published in Korea include A Convict's Love, Mongolian Mark, Fruits of My Woman, The Black Deer, Your Cold Hand, Breath Fighting, and Greek Lessons. She has received several awards including the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, the Korean Literature Novel Award, and the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian.

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