Literary Fiction spotlight
We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
A writer travels through a blizzard to save a friend's bird, and walks into the buried history of Jeju Island.
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: a novel about two friends, a snowstorm and the massacre a country agreed not to remember.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Kyungha is asked by her injured friend Inseon to travel to Jeju and feed a caged bird. The journey through snow becomes a descent into the 1948–49 killings that took Inseon's family, told through documents, dreams and testimony that refuse to stay separate. Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris.
The editorial feature
Short, cold and devastating. Han writes atrocity as weather - something that settles over a landscape and never fully melts - and the friendship at the centre keeps the book human rather than merely harrowing.
Book details
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
- Released
- 21 January 2025
- Publisher
- Hogarth
- Extent
- 272 pages
- Featured on
- 21 January 2025
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