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Han Kang


Born
in Gwangju, Korea, Republic of
November 27, 1970

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Genre
Fiction


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 564,767 ratings · 85,460 reviews · 60 distinct works • Similar authors
The Vegetarian
3.65 avg rating — 375,123 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions
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Human Acts
4.27 avg rating — 73,584 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
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Greek Lessons
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3.61 avg rating — 44,437 ratings — published 2011 — 51 editions
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The White Book
3.81 avg rating — 35,015 ratings — published 2016 — 72 editions
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We Do Not Part
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3.86 avg rating — 28,361 ratings — published 2021
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Convalescenza
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Deine kalten Hände
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3.84 avg rating — 2,013 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
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Nella notte più buia il lin...
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Europa (Yeoyu, #3)
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Quotes by Han Kang  (?)
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“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian
tags: endurance, survival, trauma
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“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts
tags: human-acts
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“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts
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Polls

Welk boek gaan we in maart 2021 lezen? (Een boek dat zich afspeelt in een niet-Westers land)

De vliegeraar van Khaled Hosseini - 352 pagina's - Afghanistan
 
  22 votes, 16.5%

Het huis van de moskee van Kader Abdolah - 412 pagina's - Iran
 
  18 votes, 13.5%

Moord op de Nijl van Agatha Christie - 223 pagina's - Egypte
 
  13 votes, 9.8%

Honderd jaar eenzaamheid van Gabriel García Márquez - 428 pagina's - Columbia/Macondo
 
  10 votes, 7.5%

Duizend schitterende zonnen van Khaled Hosseini - 396 pagina's - Afghanistan
 
  9 votes, 6.8%

 
  9 votes, 6.8%

 
  8 votes, 6.0%

Atlantis van David Gibbins - 381 pagina's - Egypte/Rode Zee
 
  6 votes, 4.5%

Judas van Amos Oz - 304 pagina's - Israel
 
  6 votes, 4.5%

De vegetariër van Han Kang - 222 pagina's - Zuid Korea
 
  5 votes, 3.8%

Een kist ontploffende mango's van Mohammed Hanif - 415 pagina's - Pakistan
 
  4 votes, 3.0%

De ontembare van Guillermo Arriaga - 830 pagina's - Mexico
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

Ali en Nino van Kurban Said - 282 pagina's - Azerbeidzjan
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

Een huis voor meneer Biswas van V.S. Naipaul - 586 pagina's - Trinidad en Tobago
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

Koorts van Deon Meyer - 582 pagina's - Zuid-Afrika
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

Het lelietheater van Lulu Wang - 495 pagina's - China
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

Blijf bij me van Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - 288 pagina's - Nigeria
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Mensenwerk van Han Kang - 240 pagina's - Zuid-Korea
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Het ding om je hals van Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 254 pagina's - Nigeria
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Weg naar huis van Yaa Gyasi - 400 pagina's - Ghana
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Suikerbastaard van Jaap Scholten - 576 pagina's - Ethiopië
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

De schim van mijn liefde van Dương Thu Hương - 509 pagina's - Vietnam
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

133 total votes
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