01759cam a2200253 i 4500 11210 IN-BhIIT 20260206164948.0 190601r20192017enk 000 1 eng c 9781846276958 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 895.73 HAN/W Han, Kang, Author. 25474 The white book / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. London : Granta Publicaions, 2024. 157 pages ; 21 cm. Han Kang was born on November 27, 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She is an author. Her novels in English include The Vegetarian and Convalescence. Her works published in Korea include A Convict's Love, Mongolian Mark, Fruits of My Woman, The Black Deer, Your Cold Hand, Breath Fighting, and Greek Lessons. She has received several awards including the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, the Korean Literature Novel Award, and the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian. (Bowker Author Biography and "This translation originally published in Great Britain by Portobello Books, London in 2017. This edition published by arrangement with Portobello Books."--Title page verso. A lyrical exploration of personal grief, conveyed through the prism of the color white, finds a nameless writer grappling with a haunting family tragedy involving the infancy death of her older sister. Literature Korean Fiction 26245 Resilience (Personality trait) Fiction. 26247 Smith, Deborah, translator. 25861 GEN 3 14858 14858 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2025-02-21 31 374.25 3 2 895.73 HAN/W 11210 2026-08-13 2026-02-06 16:49:48 2026-02-06 499.00 2025-02-21 GEN