We Do Not Part
Han Kang author Paige Aniyah Morris translator e yaewon translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:20th Feb '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 20th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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Like a long winter's dream, this new novel by Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history.
'Han Kang is one of the most powerfully gifted writers in the world’ Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
One morning in December, Kyungha is called to her friend Inseon’s hospital bedside. Airlifted to Seoul for an operation following a wood-chopping accident, Inseon is bedridden and begs Kyungha to take the first plane to her home on Jeju Island to feed her pet bird, who will quickly die unless it receives food.
Unfortunately, as Kyungha arrives a snowstorm hits. Lost in a world of snow, she begins to wonder if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. But she doesn't yet suspect the darkness which awaits her at her friend's house.
There, the long-buried story of Inseon's family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive, documenting the terrible massacre seventy years before that saw 30,000 Jeju civilians murdered.
We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination, and above all a powerful indictment against forgetting.
Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Unforgettable . . . A disquietingly beautiful novel about the impossibility of waking up from the nightmare of history. Hang Kang’s prose, as delicate as footprints in the snow or a palimpsest of shadows, conjures up the specters haunting a nation, a family, a friendship -- Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust
A visionary novel about history, trauma, art and its tremendous costs. Han Kang is one of the most powerfully gifted writers in the world. With each work, she transforms her readers, and rewrites the possibilities of the novel as a form -- Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
Han Kang. Behind these two syllables lies a novelist in the image of her latest translated work, We Do Not Part: fine, precise prose, with a poetry that willingly plunges into the fantastic, but sufficiently complex to conceal, beneath its praise of dreams and the imaginary, an implacable depiction of human cruelty * Le Monde *
ISBN: 9780241600269
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 25mm
Weight: 400g
240 pages