This week we're taking a closer look at Powell's Pick of the Month The White Book by Han Kang, author of The Vegetarian.
“Spare, observant, beautiful.
The White Book is a profound meditation on the presence in our lives that an acutely felt absence can hold.” —
Keith M.
Han Kang’s
The White Book has the delicacy of bone china and the fullness of a sail at sea. A seductive but discomfiting blend of autobiography, speculation, and musings on things that are white — sugar cubes, snow, paint, empty laughter —
The White Book seems pulled from a wintry ground that freezes the narrator in a Celanesque fugue while gesturing to the expansive possibility of the blank white page...