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- THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "[Han Kang's] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
- About the Author: Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea.
- 272 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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"One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying she has been hospitalized in Seoul and asking that Kyungha join her urgently. The two women have last seen each other over a year before, on Jeju Island, where Inseon lives and where, two days before this reunion, she has injured herself chopping wood. Airlifted to Seoul for an operation, Inseon has had to leave behind her pet bird. Bedridden, she begs Kyungha to take the first plane to Jeju to save the animal. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon's house at all costs, but the icy wind and snow squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save Inseon's bird-or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn't yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness which awaits her at her friend's house. There, the long-buried story of Inseon's family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in the archive painstakingly assembled at the house, documenting a terrible massacre on the island"--Book Synopsis
THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"[Han Kang's] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."--The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize
"[A] masterpiece."--The Boston Globe
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Han Kang's most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history. One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet--a white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon's house at all costs, but the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal--or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn't yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness that awaits her at her friend's house. Blurring the boundaries between dream and reality, We Do Not Part powerfully illuminates a forgotten chapter in Korean history, buried for decades--bringing to light the lost voices of the past to save them from oblivion. Both a hymn to an enduring friendship and an argument for remembering, it is the story of profound love in the face of unspeakable violence--and a celebration of life, however fragile it might be.
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"A chilling reminder of the terrible invisibility of people and events that are removed from us in space and time."--The New York Times "A haunting exploration of friendship amid historical trauma."--TIME "A novelist and poet of tremendous feeling and precision . . . We Do Not Part [is] a beautiful, mysterious story built around . . . a pogrom on Jeju Island after the Korean War, told from the perspective of three women characters."--The New Yorker "One of the world's most important writers."--Los Angeles Times "Astonishing . . . [We Do Not Part] is a rewarding endeavor, especially for readers familiar with Han's oeuvre who can recognize it as a mosaic that artfully pieces together her long-simmering ideas on reckoning with historical atrocities, fighting to expose state-concealed truths and finding connection in our shared humanity despite inevitable suffering."--San Francisco Chronicle "[Kang] draws American readers into foreign calamities that their own forebears had a hand in creating, and then offers a very limited kind of redemption--the chance to discover, for themselves, that legacy of shame."--The Atlantic "[We Do Not Part] blows open the lid on a long-forgotten chapter of Korean history, celebrating the resiliency of life in the face of immense tragedy."--Harper's Bazaar "It is pain--whether from large-scale acts of violence or quietly self-inflicted wounds--that gives [Han's] writing its uncomfortable vitality."--The Wall Street Journal
"[Han's] abilities are at their most undeniable and radiant."--BookPage "A dream-narrative of history, remembrance, and friendship rendered in [Han's] complex, lyrical prose."--Literary Hub "Poetic language expertly describes the mysterious geography of Jeju as Han movingly illustrates how the massacre affected survivors as well as subsequent generations. The memory of a devastating episode that must not be forgotten is revived."--Library Journal, starred review "[We Do Not Part gifts] audiences with tragic terror, luminous insight, and ethereal glimmers of hope."--Booklist, starred review "Even through the veil of translation, the quiet intricacy of the author's prose glitters throughout . . . a mysterious novel about history and friendship [that] offers no easy answers."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A visionary novel about history, trauma, art and its tremendous costs. Han Kang is one of the most powerfully gifted writers in the world. With each work, she transforms her readers, and rewrites the possibilities of the novel as a form."--Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies "A disquietingly beautiful novel about the impossibility of waking up from the nightmare of history. Hang Kang's prose, as delicate as footprints in the snow or a palimpsest of shadows, conjures up the specters haunting a nation, a family, a friendship. Unforgettable."--Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust "Haunting and dreamlike, this is a novel of secrets and silences."--Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and The Seventh Seal of Salome
About the Author
Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. e. yaewon is based in Korea and translates from and into Korean, including titles by Hwang Jungeun, Deborah Levy, and Samuel Beckett. Paige Aniyah Morris divides her time between the United States and Korea. Recent translations include works by Pak Kyongni, Ji-min Lee, and Chang Kang-myoung.Dimensions (Overall): 8.54 Inches (H) x 5.87 Inches (W) x 1.08 Inches (D)
Weight: .87 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Han Kang
Language: English
Street Date: January 21, 2025
TCIN: 90971133
UPC: 9780593595459
Item Number (DPCI): 247-18-7841
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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5.0 out of 5 stars with 1 reviews
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Soul-shattering!
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Hfox - 25 days ago
Snow. Engrossed. Wonder. South Korea. Powerful. Soul-shattering. Take care when wandering into the detritus of what you are writing. Every human piece of me sunk into these meltingly written words on the pages. My imagination using lived experience to bring forth visions of new perspectives and places never before visualized or conceptualized. Ardent feelings bubbling up all along the way. Phew. This was powerful and it would behoove you to add this to your books read in a lifetime. Oof, I’m left with a lot of grief and empathy and reminders that we have to keep fighting for empathy and for all humanity. Disclaimer: this ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.