Talk
Novel Writers Eley Williams Attrib. and other stories
21 Sep 2017
Spike Island
Bristol, United Kingdom
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Photograph courtesy Lee Chunhee
Event
Reading: Han Kang The White Book
14 Nov 2017
Cost of entry
£5, £3 concessions
Free for Spike Associates
Address
- 133 Cumberland Road
- Bristol
- BS1 6UX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 506 via Temple Meads
- Bristol Temple Meads
Event map
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian, South Korean author Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.
About
Written while on a writer’s residency in Warsaw, a city palpably scarred by the violence of the past, the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister, who died a mere two hours after birth.
In partnership with Bristol Festival of Ideas
Han Kang
Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, forthcoming 2017). She is based in Seoul.
