The White Book A Novel

<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE<br><br>“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation<br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of <i>The Vegetarian</i><br><br>“Stunningly beautiful. . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we’ve lost.”—NPR</b><br><b> </b><br>Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang’s <i>The White Book</i> is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister’s death, who died in her mother’s arms just a few hours after she was born.<br><br>In captivating, starkly beautiful language, <i>The White Book</i> is a letter from Kang to her sister, offering a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, and of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit.