Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang's "new" book is one that no one will get around to reading

“No adult alive today will ever know what’s inside…”

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Both Korean and global interest continue to grow in the South Korean novelist Han Kang and her works after being announced as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

NISI20231029_0001397800_web — Novelist Han Kang | *munhak.com*

Awarded for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life,” Han Kang is the eighteenth woman and first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, second overall after the late president Kim Dae Jungwho won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.

Some of his most popular works include The Vegetarian AND Human Acts: A Novel. But the most awaited is, perhaps, the one buried somewhere in a Norwegian forest.

In 2019, second The GuardianHan Kang was chosen as one of the novelists (along with Margaret Atwood AND David Mitchell) to contribute to the Scottish artist Katie Patersonthe “Future Library” artistic project.

1388 — Han Kang (left) with his manuscript wrapped in ceremonial cloth on his lap near Oslo, Norway. | *Bjørvika Development/Kristin von Hirsch*

Paterson asks one writer per year to contribute a manuscript on the themes of imagination and time. The manuscripts will be stored in a specially designed room, lined with wood from the forest, in the new Deichman Library, which opens this year in Oslo. In 2114, 100 years after the project’s launch, its curators will cut down the 1,000 Norwegian spruce trees planted in 2014 and print the texts, never seen by anyone until then, for the first time. “No adult alive today will ever know what’s inside the boxes, other than the fact that they are texts that will stand the ravages of time,” said the project organizers.

– The Guardian

All we know about Han Kang’s book to be published in 2114 is its title Dear son, my beloved. given that “adults living today” they won’t make it to 2114, Han Kang fans are heartbroken, but intrigued at the same time.