Human Acts
Author(s): Han Kang
A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The VegetarianGwangju, 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Portobello Books
- : Portobello Books Ltd
- : October 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Han Kang
- : Paperback
- : 1701
- : 224
- : Deborah Smith