- International Booker Prize 2018 · Shortlist · for the translation by Deborah Smith
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The White Book
흰 · Huin
Han Kang (한강, born 1970)
Translated by Deborah Smith
English editions
In EnglishThe White Book
Hogarth · United States · 11 March 2025 · Paperback · 160 pages
The White Book
Portobello Books · United Kingdom · 2017
The White Book
Hogarth · United States · 2019
The White Book
Granta · United Kingdom · 2025
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A writer resolves one spring to set down everything white and begins by drawing up a list. From it grow sixty-five brief pieces, some close to prose poems, gathered under three headings: 'I', 'She' and 'All Whiteness'. Swaddling cloth and a baby's first gown, mist, frost, salt, white birds, a white dog, rice, a magnolia, a shroud: each object is held up and looked at slowly, and together they form a meditation on what is fragile, on loss, and on writing as a white salve laid over a wound.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 132 pages in the original
- First published
- 2016 by Nanda
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9788954640718 (original)
9781846276293 (Portobello Books, United Kingdom)
9780525573067 (Hogarth, United States)
9780525573074 (Hogarth, United States)
9781803512020 (Granta, United Kingdom)
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