This is the third book translated into English by the Korean writer Han Kang. Her previous works are The Vegetarian and Human Acts. I thought the Vegetarian was a little too out there for me and I didn’t really engage with it particularly well, and it’s also quite off-putting by design. But I really liked Human Acts, which told a very human story through an inhuman set of tragedies. This book is somewhere in between. There’s a lot of really interesting writing going on, but […]
There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality.
The White Book by Han Kang
