Human Acts

Author(s): Han Kang

FICTION

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

  • : 9781846275975
  • : Portobello Books
  • : Portobello Books Ltd
  • : October 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Han Kang
  • : Paperback
  • : 1701
  • : 224
  • : Deborah Smith