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Sisters under the skin: Han Kang’s The White Book reviewed

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

Before the narrator of The White Book is born, her mother has another child; two months premature, the baby dies ‘less than two hours into life’. The narrator is born in the dead baby’s place. ‘This life,’ she writes, in a passage directly addressed to her sister, ‘needed only one of us to live it.

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