The White Book
1 hr. 19 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Han Gang
Author
Han Gang
Narrator
Ksenia Brzhezovskaya
Narrator
Ksenia Brzhezovskaya
Description
One of Han Gan’s most well-known texts, created at the border between the novel, the essay, and poetic prose.
At its center is the writer’s personal experience connected to her younger sister, who died shortly after being born. The author builds the narrative around the symbolism of the color white in human culture: the color of birth and death, mourning and celebration, memory and purification.
An unnamed narrator—the only heroine of The White Book—turns to the color white as a way to give voice to and carry her inner pain. Through images of white, she tries to survive the loss and come to terms with her sister’s death in lyrical, interconnected fragments. From attempts to imagine the baby’s first feeding by the mother to watching falling snow and reflecting on the fragility of life—step by step, a piercing story of grief takes shape, and of how we perceive the world.
At its center is the writer’s personal experience connected to her younger sister, who died shortly after being born. The author builds the narrative around the symbolism of the color white in human culture: the color of birth and death, mourning and celebration, memory and purification.
An unnamed narrator—the only heroine of The White Book—turns to the color white as a way to give voice to and carry her inner pain. Through images of white, she tries to survive the loss and come to terms with her sister’s death in lyrical, interconnected fragments. From attempts to imagine the baby’s first feeding by the mother to watching falling snow and reflecting on the fragility of life—step by step, a piercing story of grief takes shape, and of how we perceive the world.
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