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Wikipedia article




'The White Book' ('') is a 2016 novel by the Korean novelist Han Kang which was short-listed for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. The English translation by Deborah Smith was first published by Portobello Books in 2017.[https://granta.com/products/the-white-book/ See publisher's website]

The setting is in post World War II Warsaw, Poland, and has been described as "a fragmented autobiographical meditation on the death of the unnamed narrators baby sister, who died two hours after her birth.". The novel uses an unconventional narrative and short meditations to describe white objects discussing grief, loss, and human spirit. Kang describes a total of total of 65 white objects in the book.

Main White Objects List



* Swaddling bands

* Newborn gown

* Salt

* Snow

* Ice

* Moon

* Rice

* Waves

* Yulan

* White bird

* "Laughing whitely"

* Blank paper

* White dog

* White hair

* Shroud

Translation



* Kang, Han. 'The White Book.' Translated by Smith, Deborah. Portobello Books. ISBN 978-0-525-57306-7

References



Category:21st-century South Korean novels

Category:2016 novels

Category:Grief in fiction


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