The White Book — Han Kang

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book' - Deborah Levy, Guardian

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things.

But it is also a book about mourning, and of rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life from one of the great literary voices of our time.

'Wonderful... A quietly gripping contemplation on life, death and the existential impact of those who have gone before' - Eimear McBride

'The White Book is a profound and precious thing... Han Kang is a genius' - Lisa McInerney