We Do Not Part

Name: We Do Not Part
ISBN: 9780593595459

Han Kang, E. Yaewon, Paige Aniyah Morris

2021·384 pages

Literary Fiction

dreamy dual timeline family secrets friendship friendship fiction grief and loss

“[Han Kang’s] 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

“A haunting exploration of friendship amid historical trauma.”
— Time

“A novel that is both disquieting and entrancing.”
— The Economist

“[A] masterpiece.”
— The Boston Globe

One winter morning in Seoul, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at the hospital. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet—a white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon’s house at all costs, but the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal—or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into darkness that awaits her at her friend’s house. Blurring the boundaries between dream and reality, We Do Not Part powerfully brings to light the lost voices of the past to save them from oblivion. Both a hymn to an enduring friendship and an argument for remembering, it is the story of profound love in the face of unspeakable pain—and a celebration of life, however fragile it might be.

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We Do Not Part

Han Kang, E. Yaewon, Paige Aniyah Morris

Year

2021

Pages

384

Literary Fiction

Praise

“[Han Kang’s] 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