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Book news: Han Kang at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Hang Kang will be appearing with Mary Costello at the Edinburgh Book Festival. And you can vote for Han Kang’s The Vegetarian for the First Book Award here.

The Quest for Another Life

Mary Costello & Han Kang
Sun 16 Aug 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre
£7.00, £5.00 Book here

Han Kang‘Heartbreaking’ and ‘packed with emotional intensity’ say the reviewers about Mary Costello’s stunning debut novel Academy Street, while Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith, is lauded by critics as ‘haunting’, ‘seductive’ and ‘graceful and vivid’. Both Costello (from Ireland) and Han (from South Korea) have already won major awards in their home countries with these unforgettable novels. We are proud to introduce them in Edinburgh.

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