by Han Kang · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788410009387
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The new novel by Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a hymn to friendship and a song to imagination. On a cold December morning, Gyeongha receives a message from her friend Iseon, who has suffered an accident in her workshop on Jeju Island and has been transferred to a hospital in Seoul. From her bed, Iseon begs her to take the first flight to the island and take care of her parakeet. Gyeongha is unaware that in her friend's house, the buried history of Iseon's family is about to come to light through the memories passed down from mother to daughter and a carefully compiled archive documenting one of the worst massacres in Korean history. This edition includes Han Kang's speech on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize.
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
