{"id":9027455877338,"title":"흰(The White Book) by 한강(Han Kang): A Novel — Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature (Original Korean Edition)","handle":"the-white-book-by-han-kang-a-novel-winner-of-the-2024-nobel-prize-in-literature-original-korean-edition","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"154\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"154\"\u003e“Solitude, silence, and courage.\u003cbr data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"98\"\u003eThose were what this book breathed into me, like air.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"156\" data-end=\"236\"\u003eThe first Korean Nobel Prize in Literature\u003cbr data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"201\"\u003eHan Kang’s autobiographical novel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"615\"\u003eIn October 2024, Han Kang was named the first Korean recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for her “powerful and poetic prose that confronts historical trauma head-on and lays bare the fragility of human life.” She also became the first Asian woman to receive the award, and only the eighteenth woman laureate in the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"1377\"\u003eIn an interview with the Nobel Committee at the time of the award, Han Kang said: \u003cem data-start=\"699\" data-end=\"809\"\u003e“The White Book contains many autobiographical elements. It is a deeply personal book, and one I recommend.”\u003c\/em\u003e She carried with her the memory of an older sister who died just two hours after birth—whom she never saw—and of her young mother who gave birth alone and lost her first daughter. “Unlike ‘white,’ which remains as pure as cotton candy, \u003cem data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1062\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/em\u003e carries within it the quiet intermingling of life and death. What I wanted to write was \u003cem data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1167\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/em\u003e. One day, while walking, I thought: the beginning of that book must be the memory of my mother’s first child” (p. 174, \u003cem data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1302\"\u003eAuthor’s Note\u003c\/em\u003e). 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It is a deeply personal book, and one I recommend.”\u003c\/em\u003e She carried with her the memory of an older sister who died just two hours after birth—whom she never saw—and of her young mother who gave birth alone and lost her first daughter. “Unlike ‘white,’ which remains as pure as cotton candy, \u003cem data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1062\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/em\u003e carries within it the quiet intermingling of life and death. What I wanted to write was \u003cem data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1167\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/em\u003e. One day, while walking, I thought: the beginning of that book must be the memory of my mother’s first child” (p. 174, \u003cem data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1302\"\u003eAuthor’s Note\u003c\/em\u003e). From that memory, she wove sixty-five fragments into \u003cem data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1374\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1974\"\u003eNow, \u003cem data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1400\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/em\u003e returns in a new edition. To let readers focus entirely on the text itself, photographs have been removed, and a new cover has been designed, embroidered with the title upon plain white cloth. The threads—connecting, tangling, breaking, and unraveling—echo the nature of the sentences Han Kang writes, and the world those sentences together create. Spinning thread and crafting sentences may appear linear, but both encompass the intimate exploration of life, death, and human existence, while also questioning the meaning of the countless events unfolding in this world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}