The thoughtful, engaging portraits of the generosity ... the abyss will gaze back into you”. Han Kang’s version of this idea is, as she writes in We Do Not Part, that “looking squarely ...

Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories. GL Portrait/Alamy 18 octubre 2024 The poetic violence of Han Kang’s ...

In Han Kang’s Human Acts (2016), an 18-year-old who witnessed the violent put-down of a student protest, calls up the local administration’s offices every day to ask why the fountain in the ...

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...

The thoughtful, engaging portraits of the generosity ... the site of a massacre in May 1980, which Han Kang addressed in her 2014 novel Human Acts ). Kyungha's account of how she is – barely – ...