Han, Kang 1970- creator author Yae Won, Emily translator Morris, Paige Aniyah translator text novel enk London Hamish Hamilton 2025 monographic eng Eng lis h Kor ean

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374 pages ; 23 cm One morning in December, Kyungha is called to her friend Inseon's hospital bedside. Airlifted to Seoul for an operation following a wood-chopping accident, Inseon is bedridden and begs Kyungha to take the first plane to her home on Jeju Island to feed her pet bird, who will quickly die unless it receives food. Unfortunately, as Kyungha arrives a snowstorm hits. Lost in a world of snow, she begins to wonder if she will arrive in time to save the bird - or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. But she doesn't yet suspect the darkness which awaits her at her friend's house. 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 the terrible massacre seventy years before that saw 30,000 Jeju civilians murdered. / Han Kang ; translated by Emily Yae Won and Paige Aniyah Morris. Translated from the Korean. Originally published in South Korea as "Chakpyŏl haji annŭnda" in 2021. Families Fiction Missing persons Fiction Blizzards Fiction Female friendship Fiction Korea (South) Fiction Korea (South) History Chejudo Rebellion, 1948 Fiction PL992.26.K36 C4513 2025 9780241600269 UKYRK 241003 20251215120603.0 991107472019706196 eng