![]() ![]() The narrator crafts an entire life for this lost sister before turning her considerations inward, asking if she would have been conceived if the child had survived. The narrator looks through the eyes of this new person, wandering the foreign city, observing the snowy season developing around her, and using objects like “Sleet,” “Salt,” and “Sugar cubes” as titles to anchor each section. The narrator investigates her own grief regarding this child to conjure a possible alternate timeline wherein the baby lived. ![]() ![]() After traveling to Warsaw from South Korea and renting an apartment, Han’s unnamed narrator remembers the story of her parents’ first child, a girl who died shortly after birth. Far from a traditional novel in its presentation, the engrossing latest from Man Booker International winner Han ( The Vegetarian) fills spare pages with sometimes poetic meditations on the possibilities of a life unlived. ![]()
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