‘Meditation on colour’ on list

A “meditation on colour” which features a list of white objects has been longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

The 2018 prize, for a book translated into English and published in the UK, pits 13 novels against each other.

It includes The White Book by Han Kang, who won the prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian.

The author, from South Korea, has written a story in which a woman moves to a European city and is haunted by the story of her older sister, who died after birth.

Judges said the book is about “mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit”.

The winner will be announced on May 22.