TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kang, Han
AU  - Smith, Deborah
TI  - Human acts: a novel
SN  - 9781846275975
U1  - 428.802957 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Grants Publications
KW  - Korean fiction - Translations into English
KW  - Civil rights movements - Korea (South) - Fiction
KW  - Political violence - Fiction
KW  - Trauma - Psychological aspects - Fiction
N2  - 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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