We Do Not Part: A Novel by Han Kang

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About the Book

We Do Not Part follows Kyungha, who receives an urgent request from her friend Inseon, hospitalized after a carpentry accident, to rescue her beloved pet bird left alone in her home on Jeju Island. What begins as a straightforward favor becomes an immersive, dreamlike journey — as Kyungha travels through a blinding snowstorm, the narrative blurs between reality and memory, and the two friends confront a long-buried chapter of Korean history: the brutal 1948–49 Jeju massacre and the generational trauma it left behind.

Blending the real with the surreal, the novel moves between three parts — beginning grounded in the present, drifting into a snow-bound, dreamlike reckoning with the past, and closing in a powerful convergence of the two. Han Kang's fifth novel gathers many of the themes that define her work — psychological fragility, bodily suffering, and the impossibility (and necessity) of remembering historical atrocity — into what critics have called a culminating masterpiece.

Critical Acclaim

We Do Not Part was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Time, The Economist, The Guardian, Slate, Vulture, Elle, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, The Globe and Mail, PEN America, the Chicago Public Library, and the BBC, and won the French Prix Médicis for Foreign Literature. The Boston Globe called it a masterpiece, while Time described it as a haunting exploration of friendship amid historical trauma. The San Francisco Chronicle noted that it artfully pieces together Han's long-simmering ideas on reckoning with historical atrocities and finding connection amid shared suffering.

Why Choose This Book?

• From a Nobel laureate: Han Kang became the first Korean writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and this is her first novel in translation since receiving it.
• A powerful reckoning with history: Illuminates the long-suppressed 1948 Jeju Island massacre through intimate, personal storytelling.
• Signature poetic style: Blends stark realism with dreamlike, surreal imagery in prose widely praised as gorgeously poetic.
• Widely celebrated internationally: Named a Best Book of the Year by numerous major publications and awarded a top European translation prize.
• A rewarding read for Han Kang fans and newcomers alike: Echoes the surrealism of The Vegetarian and the historical reckoning of Human Acts.

About the Author

Han Kang is a South Korean novelist and the first Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her acclaimed body of work includes The Vegetarian, Human Acts, The White Book, and Greek Lessons, known for their poetic prose and unflinching engagement with trauma, memory, and the body.

Who Should Read This Book?

• Fans of literary fiction grounded in historical memory
• Readers of Han Kang's earlier work, including The Vegetarian and Human Acts
• Anyone interested in Korean history and its untold chapters
• Readers drawn to atmospheric, dreamlike, and poetic prose
• Book club readers seeking profound, discussion-worthy fiction

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