Han Kang’s 11th novel, We Do Not Part, begins with a woman edging her way out of the world

Nobel laureate Han Kang's latest novel, We Do Not Part, begins with a woman edging her way out of the world.

Han has previously written about the Gwangju Uprising , a student-led pro-democracy movement that was brutally repressed by South Korea’s military in 1980 .

We Do Not Part is a novel of dreams and apparitions, whose significance resists simple interpretation.

What Inseon has returned to impart to her old friend is her own family’s story of wartime loss.

Snow carries many meanings in the novel, which becomes less like a novel and more like a poem.