Author: Han Kang
Translators: e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah-Morris
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Hardback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
So says… Snow, trees, families and memories in old photographs and remembered recipes: We Do Not Part is a devastating and all-consuming immersion in the Jeju uprising and its brutal suppression by Korean government forces, and in the small acts of caring resistance by generations of women in one family. The book is an intimate conversation between two documentary-making colleagues, which feels reflected in the translation collaboration between e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah-Morris who move brilliantly between historical registers and local dialects, giving English-language readers a sense of the tensions and inheritances within this multi-generational history of a marginalised community. A tender, stringent contemplation of what it takes to have connection and commitment in the face of political violence, and why it’s all we have.