List of white objects considered for book award

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

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

It includes by Han Kang, who won the prize in 2016 for

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 two hours after birth.

The shortlist is announced on April 12 and the winner on May 22.