The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness. A woman is walking along a cold seaside plain lined with thousands of black tree ...
Han Kang’s pristine and enigmatic 11 th novel, We Do Not Part, begins with a woman edging her way out of the world. Like the title character in the Nobel laureate’s celebrated The Vegetarian, ...
In a 2024 speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, South Korean author Han Kang confessed that “I had long lost a sense of deep-rooted trust in humans.” She wondered: “How then could I embrace ...
The Nobel laureate’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history. By Lydia Millet Lydia Millet is the author, most recently, of the novel “Dinosaurs” and the memoir ...
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an ...
Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on the ...