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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Han Kang won the Nobel last year. But her new novel, We Do Not Part, about an arduous trip and haunting memories, is ...

This dizzying tale of family tragedy and memory forces the reader to face the horrors of the Jeju 4.3 massacre.

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

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 ...

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 ...