The White Book - Han Kang

Swaddling bands, snow, salt, rice....

This is a book made of fragments. Small meditations. White objects. White light. White grief.

.....each entry circling the death of her older sister, who lived only a few hours. The prose is spare and precise, almost translucent. Nothing is overstated. The emotion sits just beneath the surface, like frost.

It’s not a conventional novel. It’s closer to a prose poem, or a quiet act of mourning. The restraint is the power.

For readers who love minimalism, negative space, and books that feel like they are made as much from silence as from language.

Format: Paperback (French flaps)
Publisher: Granta
Page count: 161
ISBN: 9781846276958
Origin: South Korea
Condition: NEAR NEW