{"product_id":"the-white-book","title":"The White Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 2016, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Han Kang’s most intimate and formally daring works: a luminous meditation on grief, memory and the fragile persistence of life. Written during a residency in Warsaw, the book follows a nameless narrator through a city marked by the devastation of war, as she reflects on the older sister she never knew—a baby who died only hours after birth. Moving through a sequence of brief, interconnected pieces devoted to white things, from salt and snow to a newborn’s clothes and the light of the moon, Kang gradually gives shape to an absence that has haunted her family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart novel, part prose poem and part lyrical essay, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e finds extraordinary emotional depth in its attention to the smallest details. White becomes both a language of mourning and a possibility of renewal, holding together innocence and death, destruction and tenderness. Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, it offers a quieter but no less affecting expression of the concerns that run through Kang’s work: the body, suffering, remembrance and the limits of language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“On cold mornings, that first white cloud of escaping breath is proof that we are living.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Han Kang, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Deborah Levy, The Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64192879919434,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/the-white-book","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}