"The White Book by Han Kang is a beautifully written meditation on grief, resilience and love. The book explores the color white, which serves as a powerful symbol throughout, representing both purity and emptiness. With haunting prose and mesmerizing storytelling, Kang weaves together a fictional journey with personal memoir, exploring the narrator's experiences with love, loss, and death. This book would be a good read for anyone who enjoys introspective and poetic literature, and wants to explore the human spirit’s ability to endure and find meaning in tragedy."

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• Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Longlist (2018)
• Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Nominee (2018)
• International Booker Prize Nominee (2018)

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color whiteWhile on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. THE WHITE BOOK becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes.As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. THE WHITE BOOK--ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister--offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.

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