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A fragmented exploration of white things - the swaddling bands that were also her shroud, the breast milk she did not live to drink, the blank page on which the narrator herself attempts to reconstruct the story - unfolds in a powerfully poetic distillation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs she walks the unfamiliar, snow-streaked streets, lined by buildings formerly obliterated in the Second World War, their identities blur and overlap as the narrator wonders, 'Can I give this life to you?'. The White Book is a book like no other. 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She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.\n\nFraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40303314436274,"sku":"9781846276033","price":305.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/105260_611b59be0b2430.92632842_9781846276033_1b864248-cea6-45b9-8c20-84612f7edfaf.jpg?v=1643069004"},{"product_id":"human-acts","title":"Human Acts (Paperback)","description":"Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. 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Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40310310404274,"sku":"9781846275975","price":315.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/105257_611b59cd3c0522.79379928_9781846275975.jpg?v=1655304995"},{"product_id":"greek-lessons-paperback","title":"Greek Lessons (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. 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