The White Book

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016From 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.

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47 printed pages

Publication year: 2017

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this was incredibly sweet :(
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On cold mornings, that first white cloud of escaping breath is proof that we are living.
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For the first time, she had a real sense of the power that lay within this material: the power to preserve, the power to sterilize and to heal.
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Standing at this border where land and water meet, watching the seemingly endless recurrence of the waves (though this eternity is in fact illusion: the earth will one day vanish, everything will one day vanish), the fact that our lives are no more than brief instants is felt with unequivocal clarity.
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