The White Book

by Han Kang

Book Overview

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, and written by the Han Kang, the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.

From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize, The White Book is like no other book.

Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846276950
• ISBN13: 9781846276958
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"