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The White Book: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Han Kang

Deborah Smith

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book' Deborah Levy, Guardian

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. But it is also a book about mourning, and of rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life from one of the great literary voices of our time.

'Wonderful. A quietly gripping contemplation on life, death and the existential impact of those who have gone before' Eimear McBride

'The White Book is a profound and precious thing... Han Kang is a genius' Lisa McInerney

Classification : General & Literary Fiction
Pub Date : APR 5, 2018
Imprint : Granta
Page Extent : 128
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9781846276958
Price : INR 499

Han Kang

Han Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Gwangju, South Korea, she moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, 2017). She is based in Seoul.

Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith BSc (Hons) MSc MAPP MBPsS is a Positive Psychologist with over 25 years of professional experience as a psychotherapist working with individuals and groups. Best known for her work in wellbeing and mindfulness with WeightWatchers (WW) and writing a monthly Q&A page in the WW (WeightWatchers) Magazine. Deborah has taught mindfulness and meditation for over 25 years internationally and across the UK. She runs corporate wellbeing workshops and residential wellbeing retreats. She is a guest lecturer at Roehampton University and has a private practice in Bath.

The White Book: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Han Kang

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