Новинки Хан Ган

Писательница Кёнха по просьбе подруги Инсон отправляется на остров Чеджудо, чтобы спасти птицу. Однако снежная буря заставляет Кёнха сомневаться, успеет ли она вовремя добраться и выживет ли в ужасном холоде, который окутывает ее с каждым шагом. Кёнха еще не подозревает, с чем ей придется столкнуться в доме подруги. Дядя Инсон пропал без вести после массового…

Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.

Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseon’s house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.

There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the island seventy years before.

We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.

Прекрасная и тревожная книга о бунте и табу, насилии и чувственности, а главное — о болезненных метаморфозах души. Ёнхе и ее муж вели самую обычную, размеренную жизнь, пока она не начала видеть кошмары. Сновидения – навязчивые образы крови и жестокости – мучают Ёнхе. Чтобы очистить сознание, она полностью отказывается от мяса. Этот маленький акт неповиновения…

Zdobywczyni nagrody Man Booker Prize 2016, Han Kang, powraca po 5 latach z nową, pełnowymiarową powieścią.

„Nie mówię żegnaj” opowiada o ludobójstwie w 1948 roku na wyspie Czedżu. Opisuje nie tylko wydarzenia historyczne, ale także przedstawia w przejmujący portret trzech kobiet oraz wpływ, jaki na nie miała doznana przemoc i strata.
Przede wszystkim jednak stawia ważne pytania dotyczące pamięci zbiorowej czy odpowiedzialności historycznej.

Han Kang snuje opowieść o desperackiej walce i godności ludzi, którzy wbrew otaczającym ich ciemnościom starają się odnaleźć promień światła. Ta zaczerpnięta z niedawnej tragicznej historii Korei opowieść o płynącej z głębi serca, bezgranicznej miłości – która sprawia, że człowiek staje się w końcu człowiekiem – obezwładnia pięknem zawartym w eleganckich, poetyckich zdaniach i olśniewająco żywych obrazach.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018
From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016
From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.
Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.
Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian

"Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night..."

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish—the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity—their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath and expression.

Greek Lessons is the story of the unlikely bond between this pair and a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection—a novel to awaken the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be alive.

2016년 인터내셔널 부커상을 수상하며 한국문학의 입지를 한단계 확장시킨 한강의 장편소설 『채식주의자』를 15년 만에 새로운 장정으로 선보인다. 상처받은 영혼의 고통과 식물적 상상력의 강렬한 결합을 정교한 구성과 흡인력 있는 문체로 보여주는 이 작품은 섬뜩한 아름다움의 미학을 한강만의 방식으로 완성한 역작이다. “탄탄하고 정교하며 충격적인 작품으로, 독자들의 마음에 그리고 아마도 그들의 꿈에 오래도록 머물 것이다”라는 평을 받으며 인터내셔널 부커상을 수상했던 『채식주의자』는 “미국 문학계에 파문을 일으키면서도 독자들과 공명할 것으로 보인다”(뉴욕타임스), “놀라울 정도로 아름다운 산문과 믿을 수 없을 만큼 폭력적인 내용의 조합이 충격적이다”(가디언)라는 해외서평을 받았고 2018년에는 스페인에서 산클레멘테 문학상을 받는 등 전세계에서 뜨거운 반응을 일으켰다. 국내에서는 현재까지 100만부 가까이 판매되었다.

『채식주의자』는 어느 날부터 육식을 거부하며 가족들과 갈등을 빚기 시작하는 ‘영혜’가 중심인물로 등장하는 장편소설이다. 하지만 소설은 영혜를 둘러싼 세 인물인 남편, 형부, 언니의 시선에서 서술되며 영혜는 단 한번도 주도적인 화자의 위치를 얻지 못한다. 가족의 이름으로 자행되는 가부장의 폭력, 그리고 그 폭력에 저항하며 금식을 통해 동물성을 벗어던지고 나무가 되고자 한 영혜가 보여주는 식물적 상상력의 경지는 모든 세대 독자를 아우르며 더 크나큰 공명을 이루어낼 것이다.

Хан Ган – лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 2024 года, обладатель Международной Букеровской премии за роман «Вегетарианка».
Роман «Я не прощаюсь» стал бестселлером и отмечен как лучшее зарубежное произведение французской литературной премией Медичи.
В основе книги трагическое историческое событие – подавление южнокорейскими властями восстания на острове Чеджу (1948–1949 гг), жители которого выступали против разделения Кореи на северную и южную части. Погибло, по разным оценкам, от 14 до 30 тысяч человек.
Роман впервые выходит на русском языке.
Писательница Кёнха по просьбе подруги Инсон отправляется на остров Чеджудо, чтобы спасти птицу. Однако снежная буря заставляет Кёнха сомневаться, успеет ли она вовремя добраться и выживет ли в ужасном холоде, который окутывает ее с каждым шагом. Кёнха еще не подозревает, с чем ей придется столкнуться в доме подруги.
Дядя Инсон пропал без вести после массового убийства мирных жителей в 1948 году, а ее мать путешествует по всей стране, отказываясь смириться с его исчезновением.
Это роман о трех женщинах, которые связаны невидимой нитью памяти и решительно отказываются разорвать связь с теми, кого больше нет. О смерти и жизни, стойкости и боли, но прежде всего о безусловной любви и осознании того, что ни любовь, ни скорбь не имеют конца.
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为了逃避来自丈夫、家庭、社会和人群的暴力，她决定变成一棵树

在英惠的丈夫郑先生的眼中，“病”前的英惠，是个再普通不过的女子：不高不矮的个头、不长不短的头发，相貌平平，着装一般，温顺、平淡、文静。正如他所希望的那样，英惠完美地扮演了平凡妻子的角色——料理家务，伺候丈夫，就像千千万万的传统妇女一样。

然而，一场噩梦之后，妻子却突然开始拒绝吃肉，拒绝为家人准备荤菜，甚至到很后，她开始拒绝自己的“人类”身份，把自己当成了一株植物，一株只需要阳光和水，谢绝任何食物和交流的植物。而随着她被动的反叛以越来越特别和可怕的形式表现出来，丑闻、虐待和疏远开始让她螺旋进入她的幻想空间。在精神和身体的接近蜕变中，她现在危险的努力将使英惠——不可能的、狂喜的、悲剧性的——远离她曾经为人所知的自我。