A novel can be enjoyed independently, but understanding its historical and thematic context can enrich the reading experience ...

“We Do Not Part” explores Korea’s buried past and the agony of silence.

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is ...

Based on real-life events, the Nobel laureate's fifth novel highlights the generational trauma that flows through one family ...

We Do Not Part is the very best kind of story-telling, poetic and ambiguous without ever shying away from horrible historic ...

In 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to ...

Kyungha has nothing left to live for, until she is tasked with saving the life of her friend’s bird. What follows is a ...

WE DO NOT PART, by Han Kang; translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. “We Do Not Part” takes on the lasting devastation of the violent suppression of the Jeju uprising of 1948 and 1949 ...

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the narrator visits a friend who is in the hospital after severing the tips of ...

South Korean author Han Kang’s latest novel, “ We Do Not Part ,” begins with a woman named Kyungha describing a dream in which a snowy landscape dotted with thousands of burial mounds and black tree ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang was introduced to most English readers by her 2007 book, “The Vegetarian” (published in ...

In We Do Not Part, the celebrated South Korean author once again examines the frailty of humanity - but the novel can be flat ...