5/9/2023 0 Comments The white book by han kang![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published as three novellas in South Korea nearly a decade ago, Han has said that The Vegetarian was initially received as ‘very extreme and bizarre’ in Korea. Smith’s elegant renditions of the novels Human Acts(2016) and The Vegetarian(2015) form part of a recent blossoming of international interest in Korean literature Dalkey Archive’s Library of Korean Literature launched in 2013 and consists of 25 translations so far. Han Kang is a disquieting storyteller who leads the reader into the very heart of human experience, where the singular crosses the universal. Author of ten books of fiction and poetry in her native Korean, Han’s subversive work has been brought onto the Anglophone stage through close partnership with her award-winning translator Deborah Smith. ![]()
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