In her mid-twenties, Han Kang wrote two lines on the first page of every new diary: “Can the present help the past? Can the ...

As with all the Nobel Prize-winning South Korean writer’s stories, We Do Not Part refuses escapism to reach into the painful lives of strangers.

A novel can be enjoyed independently, but understanding its historical and thematic context can enrich the reading experience ...

Kyungha has nothing left to live for, until she is tasked with saving the life of her friend’s bird. What follows is a ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang was introduced to most English readers by her 2007 book, “The Vegetarian” (published in ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an ...

Based on real-life events, the Nobel laureate's fifth novel highlights the generational trauma that flows through one family ...

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is ...

SIMON: Difficult questions about humans. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize winner. Her new novel, "We Do Not Part," now in English, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. Thank you so much for being ...

SIMON: We become aware, as the story goes on, that at the heart of it is a massacre that occurred in 1948 - the Jeju Island Massacre. Can you tell us about that? HAN: So there was the liberation ...