We Do Not Part
Han Kang · b. 1970 · South Korea
Originally Jakbyeolhaji Anneunda (Korean) · translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Why it matters
A woman races through a blizzard to Jeju Island to save a friend's bird, and instead uncovers the buried mass graves of the 1948 Jeju uprising. Han Kang's snowbound companion to Human Acts, on memory a state tried to erase.
At a glance
historical fictionpsychological novel
Difficulty 7/10slow pace272 pagesDreamlike, nonlinear structure blurs the living and the dead across shifting timeframes.
