We Do Not Part

Resumen del libro

One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying she has been hospitalized in Seoul and asking that Kyungha join her urgently. The two women have last seen each other over a year before, on Jeju Island, where Inseon lives and where, two days before this reunion, she has injured herself chopping wood. Airlifted to Seoul for an operation, Inseon has had to leave behind her pet bird, which will quickly die unless it receives food. Bedridden, she begs Kyungha to take the first plane to Jeju to save the animal.Unfortunately, a snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon's house at all costs, but the icy wind and snow squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save Inseon's bird or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn't yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness which awaits her at her friend's house.There, the long-buried story of Inseon's family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in the archive painstakingly assembled at the house, documenting a terrible massacre on the island of 30,000 civilians, murdered in 1948-9.Impossible Goodbyes is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination, and above all a powerful indictment against forgetting. These beautiful pages form much more than a novel they illuminate a traumatic memory, buried for decades, that still resonates today.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Han Kang x{0026}lt;/B (Gwangju, Corea del Sur, 1970), galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024, empezó su carrera como novelista al ganar el concurso literario de primavera del diario Seúl Shinmun en 1994. Es autora de las novelasx{0026}lt;I La vegetarianax{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Booker Internacional 2016), x{0026}lt;I La clase de griegox{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2023), x{0026}lt;I Actos humanos x{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Manhae de Literatura de Corea y Premio Malaparte en Italia en 2017), x{0026}lt;I Blanco x{0026}lt;/I (finalista del Premio Booker Internacional 2018) e x{0026}lt;I Imposible decir adiósx{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Médicis Étranger 2023), así como del poemario x{0026}lt;I Guardé el anochecer en el cajónx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2025). La autora ha recibido también el Premio Yi Sang, el Premio Artista Joven del Año, el 25. Premio de Novela Coreana, el Premio de Literatura Hwang Sun-Won y el Premio de Literatura Dong Ri. Ha trabajado como profesora en el departamento de Escritura Creativa del Instituto de las Artes de Seúl hasta 2018 y en la actualidad se dedica por completo a la escritura. Su obra ha sido publicada en más de treinta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P