EAN: 9780525573067

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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.

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