In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history ...

FICTION We Do Not Part Han Kang Hamish Hamilton, $35. When the South Korean writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize last year, ...

There are hidden family stories, and tales of love and loss both real and imagined in this month's best books, as recommended ...

Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.

Ms Han’s book and her Nobel prize are “catalysts” for renewed interest in the tragedy, says Chon Yeong-mi of the Jeju History ...

There’s a strong sense of déjà vu in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, the first novel in translation since her 2024 Nobel Prize win ...

The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”: a description that applies equally to this newly ...

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...

S outh Korean actress Kang Myung Joo, who was widely recognized for her role in the K-drama Extraordinary Attorney Woo, has ...