"[Han Kang's] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."
         -- The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize

"A marvel of a book, melding an arresting historical commemoration, a testimony to the undying bonds of friendship and family, and a deeply felt lamentation by the author. While narratively the novel comprises just two voices, the memories and spirits of many thousands occupy its pages, and especially in its latter half, the voices feel as if they emanate from an almost ethereal plane of existence. . . . A masterpiece."
         -- Boston Globe

"Astonishing . . . This novel is a rewarding endeavor, especially for readers familiar with Han's oeuvre who can recognize it as a mosaic that artfully pieces together her long-simmering ideas."
         -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Han's prose is translucent, shot through with poetic turns . . . Han's radiant intensity, her singular ability to find connections between body and soul and to experiment with form and style, are what makes her one of the world's most important writers."
         -- Los Angeles Times

"Han Kang's novels foreground richly specific narratives about individual characters . . . Han, who is also a poet, commands an impressive arsenal of literary devices, and in her hands, the national repression of trauma--what Milan Kundera called 'organized forgetting'--even affects the weather. The pathetic fallacy hasn't been put to such good use in fiction since Wuthering Heights."
         -- The Atlantic

"A visionary novel about history, trauma, art and its tremendous costs. Han Kang is one of the most powerfully gifted writers in the world. With each work, she transforms her readers, and rewrites the possibilities of the novel as a form."
         -- Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

"A disquietingly beautiful novel about the impossibility of waking up from the nightmare of history. Hang Kang's prose, as delicate as footprints in the snow or a palimpsest of shadows, conjures up the specters haunting a nation, a family, a friendship. Unforgettable."
         -- Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust

"Haunting and dreamlike, this is a novel of secrets and silences."
         -- Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and The Seventh Seal of Salome

"Indelible. . . a meticulously rendered portrait of friendship, mother-daughter love, and hope in the face of profound loss. Kang is at the top of her game."
         -- Publishers Weekly, starred review