Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2024shortlisted For Foyles Book Of The Year 2025an Observer Best Book Of The Century So Farlike A Long Winter's Dream, This Haunting And Visionary New Novel From 2024 Nobel Prize Winner Han Kang Takes Us On A Journey From Contemporary South Korea Into Its Painful History'one Of The Most Profound And Skilled Writers Working On The Contemporary World Stage' Deborah Levybeginning One Morning In December, We Do Not Part Traces The Path Of Kyungha As She Travels From The City Of Seoul Into The Forests Of Jeju Island, To The Home Of Her Old Friend Inseon. Hospitalized Following An Accident, Inseon Has Begged Kyungha To Hasten There To Feed Her Beloved Pet Bird, Who Will Otherwise Die.kyungha Takes The First Plane To Jeju, But A Snowstorm Hits The Island The Moment She Arrives, Plunging Her Into A World Of White. Beset By Icy Wind And Snow Squalls, She Wonders If She Will Arrive In Time To Save The Bird - Or Even Survive The Terrible Cold Which Envelops Her With Every Step.