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Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1970. Since the age of ten, She grew up in Suyuri, Seoul after her family moved there. A recipient of the Yi Sang Literary Award, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Manhae Prize for Literature, she is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, Human Acts, and The White Book. In 2024 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The story of of a man whose son collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida.
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