Also included is her mother’s narrative of being alone while undergoing the premature birth and subsequent death of the infant. She describes snow, blizzards, frozen lakes, a white bird, a white dog, and other manifestations of white.
The narrator opens the novel by listing items in the color white, many of which connect to her baby sister: swaddling bands, newborn gown, moon, shroud, etc. The White Book by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith, is an autobiographical meditation using fragmented images of objects in the color white to serve as the backdrop for the narrator’s grief at the death of her older sister who died two hours after her birth.
Han Kang translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
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