Tag Archives: Han Kang

The White Book by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith.

Posted on August 6, 2023 by mandywight

The White Book differs from The Vegetarian and Human Acts in that it’s an intensely personal text. It’s a meditation on the loss of her mother’s first child, a baby girl who died when just two hours old, through a … Continue reading →

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Human Acts- Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith

Posted on July 6, 2017 by mandywight

This novel is an account of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea and the massacre and repression which followed. Told from different points of view, the accounts are pieced together like a mosaic and tell us of those who … Continue reading →

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The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.

Posted on July 8, 2016 by mandywight

This enigmatic novel, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016, deals with familiar themes- abuse, coercion, gender relations, sickness- in the, to me at least, relatively unfamiliar setting of South Korea. The ideas are explored partly through dreams and … Continue reading →

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