{"product_id":"the-white-book-paperback","title":"The White Book Paperback","description":"\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%; height: 134.157px;\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-text-center rpi-attribute-label\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrint length\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e128 Pages \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eEnglish \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook cover type\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGranta (Faber)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-text-center rpi-attribute-label\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication date\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 May 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e13.1 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 16.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 16.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 16.5938px;\"\u003e250g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 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. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eProduct description\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-base\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-row a-expander-container a-expander-extend-container\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebrilliant psychogeography of grief\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, moving as it does between place, history and memory... Poised and never flinches from serene dignity... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe White Book\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e... Translated seamlessly by Smith, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e succeeds in reflecting Han's urgent desire to transcend pain with language -- Deborah Levy ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-04\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWonderful. A quietly gripping contemplation on life, death and the existential impact of those who have gone before -- Eimear McBride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a profound and precious thing, its language achingly intimate, each image haunting and true. It is a remarkable achievement. Han Kang is a genius -- Lisa McInerney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebeauty and pain in every sentence and image\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, made sharper by their simplicity and aching honesty ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Internationalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-01\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach [chapter] is a miniature work of art in its own right... there is a crispness to [Han's] pieces evocative of the stark luminescence of white... This is a book you want to underline and highlight every other line or word as you read, yet every time I went to make my mark, my pencil hovered over the margins - deep as drifts of pillow-white snow - as I remained reticent to taint the perfect whiteness in front of me. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a shimmering, evocative work. Smith's peerless translation captures every last tiny nuance, the resultant prose so beautiful and affecting that it stops you in your tracks -- Lucy Scholes ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNational UAE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-10-30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fragile work of literature ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLive Mint\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelicate and thoughtful and concise and dense and strong; this is the kind of writing I like to read slowly -- Jon McGregor ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn astonishingly rendered work of fiction...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePrecise, subversive, fierce and deceptively opaque\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e... A sublime expression of grief's incongruous byways, its busy inactivity, its larger, more elaborate intrusions -- Catherine Taylor ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Han] in her new work transgresses literary convention and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eexamines the constellation of pain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e at the heart of her mother's first pregnancy... Shot through with pain and paradox [...] Kang transforms obliteration into promise. Loss and living are counterpointed, neither meaning revoked -- Katherine Waters ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArts Desk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-05\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[An] astonishing novel... with such tenderness [that] incites us to examine our own experience and place in the world... It's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea profound piece of work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e [...] that is as much concerned with what is unsaid and omitted, as what is revealed...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHan's painful, exquisite story is a philosophical lament for all the shades of life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e -- Sinead Gleeson ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIncantatory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe White Book\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereveals Han to be an innovative author committed to formal experimentation... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIntensely personal, hypnotically serene, and mournfully meditative\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Han's thanatopsis reminds readers of the revivifying power of memory and the extent to which we are uniquely endowed within the natural world to withstand the vagaries of forgetfulness and life's nagging ephemerality -- Brian Haman ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-06\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intensely emotional series of accounts that form an outline of losses which are invisible, but still palpably felt -- Eric Anderson ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLonesome Reader\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-09\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvocative and beautifully laconic, this book is about belonging, grief and the sensory experience of being alive ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2017-11-07\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA brilliant psychogeography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e -- Deborah Levy Published On: 2018-05-28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tender evocation of grief and absence... Han Kang is a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ereal artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2019-02-16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormally daring, emotionally devastating and deeply political -- Katie Kitamura ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInternational New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Published On: 2019-03-07\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Description\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, this is a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estunning meditation on the colour\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewhite; about light, about death and about ritual.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ZEPHIVO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53536513327469,"sku":"1846276950","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1013\/7570\/5453\/files\/Instagrampost-24_38.png?v=1783654868","url":"https:\/\/biloan.co.uk\/products\/the-white-book-paperback","provider":"Westova","version":"1.0","type":"link"}