The White Book by Han Kang

Written while on a writer's residency in Warsaw, a city palpably scarred by the violence of the past, the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister, who died a mere two hours after birth. A fragmented exploration of white things - the swaddling bands that were also her shroud, the breast milk she did not live to drink, the blank page on which the narrator herself attempts to reconstruct the story - unfold in a powerfully poetic distillation. As she walks the unfamiliar, snow-streaked streets, lined by buildings formerly obliterated in the Second World War, their identities blur and overlap as the narrator wonders, 'Can I give this life to you?'. The White Book is a book like no other. It is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction. (photographs in print edition only).

Publisher:	Portobello Books
Year:	2017
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9781846276293
Condition:	Good
Description:	No DJ. One of the blank pages at rear of book torn out.

This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1599114
Location: Fiction