by Han Kang · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246831242
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Like a long winter dream, this novel by Han Kang travels between contemporary South Korea and its painful history. When Gyeongha travels to Jeju Island to help her friend Inseon, she discovers a meticulous archive documenting one of the worst massacres in Korean history. It is a powerful indictment against forgetting and a hymn to friendship.
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".
