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[Title]
The White Book - 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner, Revised Edition
[Detail]
196 Pages
120*188mm
370g
ISBN : 9788954651134
[Information]
"Poetic prose that reveals the fragility of human life"
In May 2016, good news opened the morning. It was announced that Han Kang, the first Korean writer, had won the Man Booker Prize for her work The Vegetarian. The questions that started 11 years ago in The Vegetarian's "world of violence and beauty" continued one after another, and eventually she came to the idea of looking at "the bright and dignified side of humanity." That's how writer Han Kang found readers with her latest work, White.
The novel begins with the sentence, "The first thing I did in the spring when I decided to write about white things was to make a list." The list continues with Kangbo, maternity clothes, salt, snow, ice, the moon, rice, waves, and white magnolia. A beautiful, white baby like a mooncake who was born when her mother was 23 and died two hours after birth. Growing up where that baby died, I resonate with my sister's death and the death of a six-year-old baby who was murdered in a Jewish ghetto. Like a poem or a novel, the sentences are repeated in a series, and the images of white things convey a faint light to both the living and the dead.
