More than 13m people come to this island, south of South Korea’s mainland, every year; many will not be aware of what lies ...
The Nobel Prize winning author is vigilant against the dangers of forgetting in a memorable, probing and exquisitely detailed ...
There’s a strong sense of déjà vu in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, the first novel in translation since her 2024 Nobel Prize win ...
The seven slaps suffered by a young woman working in publishing depicted in Han Kang’s novel about Korea under brutal ...
In her mid-twenties, Han Kang wrote two lines on the first page of every new diary: “Can the present help the past? Can the living save the dead?” She is now 54, a Nobel literature laureate and winner ...
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We Do Not Part by South Korean writer Han Kang asks difficult questions about the troubled history of her nation.
In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...
In fact, it’s among the nightmares that have haunted her for years. Kyungha, the protagonist of Han Kang’s novel We Do Not Part, is a writer; in 2012, six years before the book starts ...
Han Kang became a celebrity last year when she won the Nobel Prize in literature. By contrast, Kyungha, the narrator of her new novel We Do Not Part, is a long way away from fame or fulfillment.