A review by memeraryfiction
We Do Not Part by Han Kang

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

We Do Not Part is unbelievably, spectacularly beautiful. Han's writing, her pacing, the slow unspooling of characters and their stories - it's all perfect. It's quite visual and sensory, and it unfolds like watching an arthouse film, though I think any attempt to capture it in film would fall short.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Torture, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Colonisation