Description
The first English edition of The White Book, signed by Han Kang, winner of the 2016 Booker Prize.
Octavo, [4], 161pp, [12]. White hardcover, title stamped in black. The first English edition, with a full number line on the copyright page. Appears unread. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, £10 on the front flap, illustrations in black.
Signed on the title page by Han Kang, in Korean and English.
Han Kang (b. 1970) is a South Korean novelist and the 2024 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her international breakthrough came with The Vegetarian, which won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize in English translation.
