The White Book - Han Kang
Category: Poetry
Tags: Poetry, Adults, Literature
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 writers 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 mothers 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 babys 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 sisters death, Han Kangs 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 h
