{"title":"Han Kang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1141\"\u003eHan Kang\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. She is one of the most restless voices in contemporary literature. Her books explore the invisible violence of everyday life and the fragility of the body as a place of memory. Nobel Prize in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e«Cruelty is what we have in common as a species. And the only trait that is ours alone.»\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-vegetariana","title":"The vegetarian","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"50\" data-end=\"588\"\u003eA simple gesture—refusing to eat meat—becomes an absolute act of rebellion. Yeong-hye, the protagonist, decides to give up meat after a disturbing dream. What begins as a personal choice quickly becomes an intimate and familial war, in which the female body is the battlefield between conformity and the desire for purity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"50\" data-end=\"588\"\u003eYeong-hye's decision is seen as madness, but her refusal is, in fact, a refusal of\u003cstrong data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"586\"\u003e all forms of violence: physical, patriarchal, symbolic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"590\" data-end=\"1127\"\u003eThe narrative, divided into three parts, follows the protagonist's process of dissolution. Han Kang writes with precision and compassion. Yeong-hye's transformation evokes Kafka.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"590\" data-end=\"1127\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e “I dreamed that blood was flowing from my mouth, and I realized that I could never eat meat again.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1560\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1141\"\u003eHan Kang\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. She is one of the most unsettling voices in contemporary literature. Her books explore the invisible violence of everyday life and the fragility of the body as a place of memory. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D. 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Han Kang helps us understand how horror seeps into generations, words, and silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"635\" data-end=\"1059\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e“\u003cstrong data-start=\"773\" data-end=\"865\"\u003eHow is it possible that the human body, made of such fragile flesh, can contain so much pain?\u003c\/strong\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"635\" data-end=\"1059\"\u003eThe answer never comes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1536\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1073\"\u003eHan Kang\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1970 in Gwangju, the city where the events that inspired the novel took place. She is one of South Korea's most renowned writers and the author of works such as \u003cem data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1260\"\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1263\" data-end=\"1280\"\u003eGreek Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing, at once lyrical and disciplined, questions the relationship between body, violence, and memory. Nobel Prize in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D. Quixote","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52076312264970,"sku":null,"price":16.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/AtosHumanos.jpg?v=1762284478"},{"product_id":"o-livro-branco","title":"The white book","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"585\"\u003eA book made of absences. The work begins with the death of the author's sister, who died shortly after birth, and transforms that void into a meditation on fragility, the body, and light. The text is both an exercise in memory and a ritual in which each white object becomes a way of speaking. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"585\"\u003eHan Kang writes with an almost mineral purity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"585\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e“\u003cstrong data-start=\"706\" data-end=\"825\"\u003eIf I could write your life in white, perhaps silence would become a body, and that body could breathe.\u003c\/strong\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"585\"\u003eThe impossible desire to give form back to what has disappeared. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1474\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1078\"\u003eHan Kang\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea, and is one of the most singular voices in contemporary literature. 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