The Shape of the Ruins
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired García Márquez's General Buendía in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of the charismatic Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the man who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections of 1948.
We Do Not Part
Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2025
Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger 2023
Winner of the Prix Émile Guimet for Asian Literature 2024
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2025
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2026
Like a long winter's dream, this new novel by Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history. 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.
DETAILS
- Author
- Han Kang
- Original language
- Korean
- Translated by
- e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
- First published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- This edition
- March 2026
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780241997048
- Language
- en
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