The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

The English translation of Han Kang’s latest novel, We Do Not Part, arrived in the US on Jan 21, with a British version released last Thursday. Translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the ...

the 1980 massacre in the city of Gwangju, which crushed a pro-democracy movement, and an earlier, even deadlier chapter on Jeju Island, in which tens of thousands of people were killed.

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea ... tens of thousands of islanders were slaughtered in what is now known as the Jeju Massacre, or the Jeju 4.3 Incident in Korean. Kim Jung-hyun, 22, a Jeju native ...

Sitting at the front of the St. Paul library with the usual suspects for January’s book club meeting, I was struck by the common response to The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.

From beginning to end, Han’s writing is nothing short of breathtaking — her delicate prose carries a force that knocks you ...

HAN: She is injured. So she's living in Jeju Island in the very remote village, but because she was injured and she is now hospitalized in Seoul. SIMON: We become aware, as the story goes on, that at ...

South Korean author Han Kang’s latest novel, “ We Do Not Part ,” begins with a woman named Kyungha describing a dream in which a snowy landscape dotted with thousands of burial mounds and black tree ...

Set mostly in present day, “We Do Not Part” highlights the generational trauma that flows through one family from the massacre on Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea, whose waves of ...

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 ...