The white book by han kang5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Kang describes a total of 65 white objects in the book, including rice, sugar cubes, and breast milk. The White Book is a profound and precious thing, its language achingly intimate, each image haunting and true. ![]() The novel uses an unconventional narrative and short meditations on the color white to discuss grief, loss, and the fragile nature of the human spirit. The book has been described as "a fragmented autobiographical meditation on the death of the unnamed narrator’s baby sister, who died two hours after her birth.". The setting is in post World War II Warsaw, Poland. The English translation by Deborah Smith was first published by Portobello Books in 2017. ![]() The White Book ( 흰) is a 2016 novel by the Korean novelist Han Kang which was short-listed for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. ![]()
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