Not knowing what boundary, she was now passing over.
Still with her eyes closed the whole time. Though she had, by now, slipped from consciousness, the nipple in her mouth encouraged a soft swallowing, gradually growing stronger. And yet, before dawn, when the first milk finally came from her mother’s breasts and she pressed her nipple between the tiny lips, she found that, despite everything, the baby was still breathing. At some point, even that scant response was no longer forthcoming. Now and then her mother would be struck by a sense of foreboding and give a corner of the quilt a tug, but the baby’s eyes opened only briefly, grew dim and then slid shut. One major theme that dominates is her sister’s death, two hours after she is born prematurely. It is through the listing of these objects that the author explores various themes throughout the book. Salt, snow, ice, moon, rice, waves and so on.
In the spring, when I decided to write about white things, the first thing I did was to make a list. This is no linear narrative the author chooses to tell her story in a fragmentary style, in a series of short paragraphs on every page. The White Book is a haunting piece of work about grief, loss and healing. Onto the novel itself then… Portobello Books Hardback Edition Since then, a couple of novels have been translated – one is Human Acts (which I have yet to read), and the other is The White Book, which is the one I will be reviewing.Īnd as was the case last time, Deborah Smith’s translation of The White Book is incredible too. It is a novel like no other and wonderfully translated by Deborah Smith.
But in a strict society such as Korea with its set ways and traditions, it is an act of rebellion that shocks her family. The Vegetarian is about a supposedly unremarkable woman (and this is her husband’s point of view), who one day decides to stop eating meat. Because I was blown away by the novel, and it made into my Top Books of the Year list in 2015. It garnered rave reviews in the book blogging world. Although she has penned quite a few books, The Vegetarian was the first to be translated into English by the ever reliable and interesting publisher Portobello Books. I was introduced to her writing, when her novel The Vegetarian was translated and released to an English speaking audience a couple of years back. But today I will be focusing on Korean author Han Kang. Even more so when you have a gut feeling of pretty much loving each and every book that author writes. It is always exciting to discover a new author.
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