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Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.
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Human acts, Han Kang, Deborah Smith
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Human acts
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Han Kang, Deborah Smith
- Publisher
- Portobello books
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 1846275970
- ISBN13
- 9781846275975
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Murders, Death, Literary Fiction, Violence, Loss, Asian Fiction, Torture, Korea, Oppression, South Korea, Political Persecution, Korean Literature, Year 1980
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- 소년이 온다 (Sonjoni onda)
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.