The most recent novel by South Korean writer Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature this Wednesday, impossible goodbyeswill be published later this year in Portugal by Dom Quijote, the publisher said in a statement.
impossible goodbyeswho won the Medici Prize in France last year, ex-aequo with Compassionby Lídia Jorge, is a novel that takes the reader on a journey through contemporary South Korea and its painful history.
The play tells the story of Gyeong-ha, who travels to Jeju at the request of his friend In-seon, who is hospitalized, to save a parrot who, according to him, has been left alone in his house and needs to be fed.
When Gyeong-ha arrives at her friend In-seon’s house, after facing a snowstorm on the island, she is confronted with In-seon’s family’s past and especially her mother, Jeong-sim, who passed decades trying to find her. brother who disappeared after the 1948 massacre.
Meticulously compiled are hundreds of files documenting one of the worst massacres Korea has ever known: 30,000 civilians murdered between November 1948 and early 1949 for being communists.
Nobel Prize in Literature: The originality of the work of the South Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 edition
Han Kang’s first book published in Portugal was The vegetarianof Dom Quixote, in 2016, when he won the Man Booker International Prize for this novel.
This work was republished in 2019, by BIS, from the same publishing group, Leya. In 2017 the novel was published. human actsin 2019, The White Paperand in 2023, Greek lessons. Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1974. In 1994, she began her writing career by winning a literary contest in Seoul.
In addition to the Nobel, the Booker and the Medici, Han Kang received the Manhae Prize in South Korea and the Malaparte Prize in Italy for human acts and was also a finalist, again, for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for The White Paper.
Han Kang also received the Yi Sang, Young Creators, Best Korean Novel, Hwang Sun-won and Dongri literary awards. She was a professor at the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts and currently dedicates herself solely to writing.
Source: Observadora
