Han Kang

The White Book

Meditation on whiteness as color, loss, and the unnamed within memory

About the author

Han Kang
Han Kang

South Korean novelist who writes in Korean and reached a global audience through Deborah Smith's translations. The Vegetarian won the Man Booker International Prize. The White Book and Human Acts are equally haunting. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024.

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