From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for "The Vegetarian" comes a stunning meditation on the colour white, about life, about death, ritual and the figure in the city.
HAN KANG was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Human Acts, her second novel published in English (Portobello Books, 2016), won the Manhae Literary Award. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
