Han Kang: The White Book, Gebunden
The White Book
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- Publisher:
- Random House LLC US, 02/2019
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780525573067
- Volume:
- 160 Pages
- Weight:
- 347 g
- Format:
- 203 x 134 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 19.2.2019
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white
While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. THE WHITE BOOK becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes.
As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. THE WHITE BOOK--ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister--offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.