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The white book by han kang5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Its snow-crystals of prose settle into an eerily moving sequence of meditations on destruction, bereavement and rebirth. The baby girl had “a face as white as a crescent-moon rice cake”.įrom these dual dimensions of grief and memory, one personal and one historical, Han Kang, a South Korean writer, has fashioned a winter book made up of beautiful, tantalising fragments. During this spell of exile, she recalls the sibling she never met: her mother’s first child, who died “less than two hours into life”. To be published in America by Hogarth in 2019.Ī WOMAN wanders through the snowbound streets of a European city that, in the second world war, suffered such wholesale obliteration that “the white glow of stone ruins” stretched “as far as the eye could see”. ![]()
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