We Do Not Part

THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE [Han Kangs] 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 Kangs 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 peta white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseons house at all costs, but the icy...