The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness. A woman is walking along a cold seaside plain lined with thousands of black tree ...
Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee. They have ...
In a 2024 speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, South Korean author Han Kang confessed that “I had long lost a sense of deep-rooted trust in humans.” She wondered: “How then could I embrace ...
The Nobel laureate’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history. By Lydia Millet Lydia Millet is the author, most recently, of the novel “Dinosaurs” and the memoir ...
Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on the ...
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an ...
It’s daunting to review a novel written by someone who, in 2024, received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas ...
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