Han Kang, the Korean novelist who won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature, has had two previous books translated into English. The White Book is a meditation on colour, white things, told in fragments with reflections on grief, loss, the strangeness of life, and the human spirit. It's not a novel, there is no plot as such, it reads like a collection of prose poems, with an accumulating emotional power. It's beautiful, and illustrated with a number of black and white images, thoughtful and meditative.