Deep Reads: The White Book by 2024 Nobel Winner Han Kang (One Session Only)

This month we'll read The White Book by 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang.

Han was awarded the Nobel Prize for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"

About the White Book: "Writing while on a 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 - unfolds 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.

This is both the most autobiographical and the most experimental book to date from South Korean master Han Kang."

You can find a copy here: If you buy any of the version after clicking on my link, I will get a few pennies to help support the cost of the meetup.
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