WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2024
Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from
2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from
contemporary South Korea into its painful history
‘One of the most profound and skilled writers working on the
contemporary world stage’ Deborah Levy
Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of
Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju
Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an
accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved
pet bird, who will otherwise die.
Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island
the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by
icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to
save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her
with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseon’s
house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.
There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in
dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a
painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the
island seventy years before.
We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and
above all an indictment against forgetting.
Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
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