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caroreretini 's review for:
We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
I would recommend reading this book in autumn or winter. I read it in summer and I believe this took away from my reading experience. If it hadn’t been a library loan, I would have put the book aside to during the colder months.
While reading We Do Not Part, I often felt like a heavy stone was sat upon my chest. I can very much see why Han Kang won the Nobel prize “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. I‘ve long had her other books on my radar, although I have to admit I’m still a bit scared to read the Vegetarian.
I also couldn’t help but draw parallels to what’s currently going on in Palestine. Though a different evil (ok not so different as far as US involvement is concerned), the feelings this book inspired in me are eerily similar.
„At some point, as the materials piled up and began to take on a clearer form, I could feel myself changing. To the point where it seemed nothing one human being did to another could ever shock me again…“
„In lieu of an answer, I placed my hand over the photo of the bones.
Over people who no longer had eyes or tongues.
Over people whose organs and muscles had rotted away.
Over what was no longer human – no.
Over what remained human even now.“