{"product_id":"white-book","title":"White Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eFROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.\"--from the Nobel Prize citation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - A \"formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stunningly beautiful. . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we've lost.\"--NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang's \u003ci\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister's death, who died in her mother's arms just a few hours after she was born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn captivating, starkly beautiful language, \u003ci\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/i\u003e is a letter from Kang to her sister, offering a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, and of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit.","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41977235275851,"sku":"9780525573074","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/imageloader_41f5e737-7398-41f0-b601-ea4cfa4b0d04.jpg?v=1766053880","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/white-book","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}