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020			_a9781846276958 (pbk.)
040			_aIN-BhIIT
041	1		_aeng
082			_a895.73 _bHAN/W
100	1		_aHan, Kang, _eAuthor. _925474
245	1	4	_aThe white book / _cHan Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
260			_aLondon : _bGranta Publicaions, _c2024.
300			_a157 pages ; _c21 cm.
500			_aHan 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.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aLiterature _xKorean Fiction _926245
650		7	_aResilience (Personality trait) _xFiction. _926247
700	1		_aSmith, Deborah, _etranslator. _925861
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