![]() What does the color ‘White’ signify or capture for you? For me it brings in pictures of flowers – jasmine and shankapushpa, of joy and grief depicted in different communities, of the white walls in my old room that I left behind stained with years of my existence and perhaps of peace and tranquility. Han Kang’s The White Book translated from Korean by Deborah Smith narrated by Jennifer Kim is a testament of grief, loss told from various items through the color white. As when, unconsciously in front of a stove, I hold my stiff hands out to the silence, fingers splayed in its scant warmth. ![]() When long days finally come to a close, a time to be quiet is needed. ![]()
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