The White Book : Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Name: The White Book : Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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HAN KANG

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ISBN

9781846276958

Mladinska knjiga ID

742374

Leto izida

2018

Datum izida

05.04.2018

Število strani

128

Velikost (šxdxv)

14 × 195 × 131

Status dobavljivosti

3-5 delovnih dni

Jezik

ANG

Teža

500 g

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GRANTA BOOKS

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HAN KANG

Opis

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018

‘Memory is complicated, but the colour white is not, and Kang’s painful, exquisite story… is a philosophical lament for all the shades of life in between.’ – The Irish Times

Han Kang’s The Vegetarian – her mesmeric tale of authoritarian control and individual desire – claimed the Man Booker International Prize of 2016 and sealed her global recognition.

Kang now returns with The White Book, a gossamer-delicate meditation on mortality and meaning. The death of the author’s own baby sister – who passed only two hours after her birth – provides the gravitational centre to a volume that similarly focuses on the white, the iconography of mourning and remembrance.

Throughout, the identity of the narrator remains unknown: this is not a book of identities but, as the Guardian puts it, ‘a brilliant psychogeography of grief… The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book.’

Written in spare, tender sections, we discover the sparse intimacies of the narrator’s life; chapters vary from slivers of verse to self-contained gasps of narrative. The whole is deeply evocative, gilded as ever by Deborah Smith’s sensitive translation. In her third collaboration with the author (the second being the extraordinary Human Acts), Smith is less translator than essential interlocutor to Kang’s craft.