The White Book

Grief, appropriate to the cultural symbolism of the colour white, pervades the pages of The White Book. If you've read Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Han Kang's The White Book is similar in its series of riffs on a colour and its evocations for the author. I would say Hang Kang's work is more sparsely poetic & melancholy in its tone. There is beauty to be had here if you're in the right headspace & life stage.