Here are 2 books that The Future Was Color fans have personally recommended if you like
The Future Was Color.
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Han Kang is an extraordinary writer, now recognised with the award of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature (the first for a South Korean author). I want to cheat here, and recommend two of her books, short as they are. The White Book is filled with space, and flows with the growing subsong of emotion and feeling. The story builds, and gently holds your heart.
Jump over, too, to Greek Lessons, where the lives intersect of a woman no longer able to speak, since her son was taken away, and a teacher of ancient Greek losing his sight. Wondrous writing in both books.
FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political” (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian
“Stunningly beautiful writing . . . delicate and gorgeous . . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we’ve lost.”—NPR
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel-a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young's method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose of extraordinary richness she tests the nature of her characters-and the nature of reality. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is written with oceanic music moving at many levels of consciousness and perception;…
