![]() ![]() ![]() The specks and splashes of whiteness are surrounded by shadow. The photographs are of white objects, but in contrast to the white pages, they are startlingly grey. She holds a pebble-like object covered in salt. Photographs are interspersed throughout. In some, a woman appears, her face obscured by shadow. In an interview with Granta, Kang said that when writing this book, she imagined her prematurely dead sister had lived and visited the city ‘in my place’. Instead it is only a white city, white for its snow and white for its stone ruins. Han Kang wrote it whilst living in Warsaw, though in the book the city is never named explicitly. The White Book feels as if it is being whispered: each paragraph seems to come from some deep and interior place. ![]()
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