Han Kang is a beautiful writer. She somehow expresses so much in a line, like in this book when the uncanny is perfectly presented as a sea with no waves. We Do Not Part is her most recent novel, and deals with two protagonists (the narrator and her friend Inseon) who have been friends for years. They decided to make an artwork together that appeared in a dream of our narrator, but that consumes Inseon because it becomes a vessel for her to tell the story of the massacres on Jeju Island in the 1940s and 1950s.

All of this is told in a dreamlike narrative where it's unclear if any character is in our worldly realm. The stories of those adults and children lost to that terrible history become more solid and concrete than those of our modern-day protagonists, and time becomes blurred. It is a beautiful and devastating novel, as most of Kang's work is.

One small complaint is on the coherence of the language, which I think may have been a problem with the translation, which might have been rushed by the publisher to profit from Kang's recent Nobel Prize.