The White Book

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016From 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. 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.

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47 printed pages

Publication year: 2017

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The box holding their mother’s powdered bones they enshrined in an ossuary;
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My twenty-two-year-old mother crawled into the kitchen and boiled some water to sterilize a pair of scissors.
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If silence could be condensed into the smallest, most solid object, this is how it would feel, she
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