2016 Han River new novel
"white"
disappearing - disappearing - beauty ... ...
Talk about something white that is undefiled

"was a list offered a decided spring day I was first writing about the white"

writers new novel of the river, to plan the winter last in 2013 under the name "White" in 2014 And finished in May 2016, based on the completed draft. It is a book made by counting the number of sweat, and a book stained with such sweat.

The list of white things so called by the artist is derived from a total of 65 stories and is smiled under the three parts of 'me', 'her' and 'all white'. Each story under each subtitle boasts a dense perfection in itself, though it is one novel, but sometimes it is easy to read as a poetry book with 65 poems.

This relatively novel volume is not an easy-to-read novel. Slowly, let it read very slowly, take a cloudy pencil and let it draw a word on the sentence or word, and then go back to the previous page and start reading again from the previous page.

My heart is blurred in the bookshelf, and the white color that has been called to support the weight of the novel "white", which is gradually becoming heavy, The process of recalling, calling, writing, and writing white is a process that eventually heals the white, reading the white.

The "white ointment on the lesion, the white gauze to cover it" will eventually become the role of the genre of the novel that the Han River is trying to say, and it will be justice in another sense.

From the winner of The Booker International Prize for the Vegetarian

. The White Book is a meditation on color, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.

Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.

Han Kang

was born in late November 1970. After graduating from Yonsei University in Korea, he published poetry in "Literature and Society" in 1993. In the following year, a short novel "Red Anchor" was elected in the Seoul Newspaper New Year literature. The novel "Black Deer" "Your cold hands" "Vegetarians" "Wind blows, Goes" "Greek time" "Boy comes", A collection of novels "Love of Yeosu" "My woman's fruit" And poetry "I put an evening in a drawer". Literary Award of Manhae, Hwang Sunwon Literary Award, Dongri Literary Award, Lee Sang Literary Award, Today's Young Art Prize, Korean Literature Award.

Meanwhile, the "Veggie" published in 2007 was published in various newspapers such as the New York Times, and won the Man-Booker International Award in 2016, Interest is growing. The overseas translation of the literary award winner "Boy I Come" is also sold to 20 countries, adding to the liveliness of Korean literature.

Station: Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith Deborah Smithwas born in Doncaster, a small town in central England and graduated in 2009 from Cambridge University. After I decided to become a translator, I realized that I did not have a translator specializing in Korean in English. He received his Ph.D. in Korean Studies at the University of London in 2015 and won the Man-Booker International Award, one of the world's three greatest literary awards, in collaboration with the Han River, in May, 2016, in the novel "Vegetarianism" translation of the Han River. In addition to "vegetarians," he translated the Han River's "Human Acts" and "The Accusation," a novel by writer Bandy living in North Korea. Tilted Axis Press, a nonprofit translation organization that deals with Asian literature.