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We Do Not Part: A Novel Audiobook
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize
“Unforgettable.”—Hernan Diaz
Han Kang’s most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history.
One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet—a white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon’s house at all costs, but the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal—or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness that awaits her at her friend’s house.
Blurring the boundaries between dream and reality, We Do Not Part powerfully illuminates a forgotten chapter in Korean history, buried for decades—bringing to light the lost voices of the past to save them from oblivion. Both a hymn to an enduring friendship and an argument for remembering, it is the story of profound love in the face of unspeakable violence—and a celebration of life, however fragile it might be.
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"A disquietingly beautiful novel about the impossibility of waking up from the nightmare of history . . . . Hang Kang’s prose, as delicate as footprints in the snow or a palimpsest of shadows, conjures up the specters haunting a nation, a family, a friendship. . . . Unforgettable."
— Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust
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A visionary novel about history, trauma, art and its tremendous costs. Han Kang is one of the most powerfully gifted writers in the world. With each work, she transforms her readers, and rewrites the possibilities of the novel as a form.
— Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies -
A disquietingly beautiful novel about the impossibility of waking up from the nightmare of history. Hang Kang’s prose, as delicate as footprints in the snow or a palimpsest of shadows, conjures up the specters haunting a nation, a family, a friendship. Unforgettable.
— Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust -
A disquietingly beautiful novel about the impossibility of waking up from the nightmare of history . . . . Han Kang’s prose, as delicate as footprints in the snow or a palimpsest of shadows, conjures up the specters haunting a nation, a family, a friendship. . . . Unforgettable.
— Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust -
Indelible. . . A meticulously rendered portrait of friendship, mother-daughter love, and hope in the face of profound loss. Kang is at the top of her game.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review -
Haunting and dreamlike, this is a novel of secrets and silences.
— Silvia Moreno-Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and The Seventh Veil of Salome -
Indelible. . . a meticulously rendered portrait of friendship, mother-daughter love, and hope in the face of profound loss. Kang is at the top of her game.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review -
[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
— The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize -
Haunting and dreamlike, this is a novel of secrets and silences.
— Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and The Seventh Seal of Salome
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About Han Kang
Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and was first published as a novelist in 1994. In 2024 she won the Nobel Prize for Literature. A participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, she has won the Man Booker International Prize, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Manhae Prize for Literature. She works as a professor in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.