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TBR (To Be Read): To know the power of silence, read Nobel laureate Han Kang’s books
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South Korean author Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, is best known for her novel The Vegetarian (2015).
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SINGAPORE – In a world that equates having a voice with saying more, writer Han Kang – South Korea’s first Nobel laureate in literature
Her most celebrated and indelible invention, readers often forget, is a silent figure. Yeong-ju, who inexplicably disavows meat in The Vegetarian (2015), is narrated by her husband, brother-in-law and sister, but never gets to tell her own story.
