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The White Book by Han Kang

February 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the third book translated into English by the Korean writer Han Kang. Her previous works are The Vegetarian and Human Acts. I thought the Vegetarian was a little too out there for me and I didn’t really engage with it particularly well, and it’s also quite off-putting by design. But I really liked Human Acts, which told a very human story through an inhuman set of tragedies. This book is somewhere in between. There’s a lot of really interesting writing going on, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Han Kang, the white book

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:109 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Han Kang, the white book ·
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