We Do Not Part
Exquisite and profoundly disquieting ... I found no answers in this deeply mysterious and often eerie novel. ... 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.
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Lushly poetic ... 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.
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Kang weaves this stomach-wrenching history into her poetic prose using nature ... Anything but predictable, even, at times, obscure. Kang uses a fragmentary structure punctuated by lyrical, dreamlike sequences to accentuate the collapse between past and present ... The novel’s ghosts are not flimsy holograms. Your hand cannot pass through them. Kang’s spirits are flesh and blood, their pain visceral and lingering.
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