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Human acts: a novel

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grants Publications 2024 LondonDescription: 224pISBN:
  • 9781846275975
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.802957 K2H8
Summary: 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. https://granta.com/products/human-acts/
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 27-B / Slot 1323 (0 Floor, East Wing) Fiction General Stacks 428.802957 K2H8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 21/07/2025 207646

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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