Name: The White Book
SKU: 50257550
Price: 502.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Han Kang
ISBN: 9781846276958

Type

Physical Book

Author

Han Kang

Publisher

Granta Books

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x13.1x1.3 cm

Weight

0.26

ISBN13

9781846276958

The White Book

Han Kang (Author) · Granta Books · Paperback

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 29 Oct - 06 Nov

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Synopsis "The White Book"

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book' Deborah Levy, Guardian

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. But it is also a book about mourning, and of rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life from one of the great literary voices of our time.

'Wonderful. A quietly gripping contemplation on life, death and the existential impact of those who have gone before' Eimear McBride

'The White Book is a profound and precious thing... Han Kang is a genius' Lisa McInerney

Han Kang

(Author)

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Han Kang (Gwangju, South Korea, 1970), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, began her literary career in 1993 with the publication of several poems in the magazine "Literature and Society"

The following year, she won the Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest with her story "The Scarlet Anchor", marking her start in narrative. She is the author of The Vegetarian (Random House, 2024; International Booker Prize 2016), The Greek Lesson (Random House, 2023), Human Acts (Manhae Literature Prize in Korea and Malaparte Prize in Italy in 2017), White (finalist for the International Booker Prize 2018) and Impossible to Say Goodbye (Random House, 2024; Médicis Foreign Prize 2023)

The author has also received the Yi Sang Prize, the Young Artist of the Year Award, the 25th Korean Novel Prize, the Hwang Sun-won Literature Prize, and the Dong Ri Literature Prize. She worked as a professor in the Creative Writing department at the Seoul Institute of the Arts until 2018 and is currently dedicated full-time to writing. Her work has been published in more than thirty languages.

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