We Do Not Part

THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG,WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE ΓÇ£[Han KangΓÇÖs] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Nobel Committee for Literaturein the citation for the Nobel Prize ΓÇ£Unforgettable.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöHernan Diaz Han KangΓÇÖs most revelatory book since The VegetarianWe Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history. One winter morningKyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an accidentand she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Islandwhere she livesto save her beloved petΓÇöa white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach InseonΓÇÖs house at all costsbut the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animalΓÇöor even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snowshe doesnΓÇÖt yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness that awaits her at her friendΓÇÖs house. Blurring the boundaries between dream and realityWe Do Not Part powerfully illuminates a forgotten chapter in Korean historyburied for decadesΓÇöbringing to light the lost voices of the past to save them from oblivion. Both a hymn to an enduring friendship and an argument for rememberingit is the story of profound love in the face of unspeakable violenceΓÇöand a celebration of lifehowever fragile it might be.