We do not separate

Han Kang

The novel "Inseparable" begins one December morning, following Kyungha as she travels from Seoul to the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend In-soon. After being hospitalized following an accident, In-soon begs Kyungha to hurry there to feed her beloved pet bird, or it will die.

Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a blizzard hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of whiteness. Bound by icy winds and blizzards, she wonders if she will make it in time to rescue the bird, or even survive the bitter cold that envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles to Insoon's house, unaware of the descent into darkness that awaits her. There, the long-buried story of the Insoon family unfolds, in the dreams and memories passed down from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a horrific massacre on the island seventy years earlier. "Inseparable" is a hymn to friendship, a praise of imagination, and, above all, an indictment against forgetting.