Bibliograph

Human acts, a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith

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Human acts, a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Human acts

Responsibility statement

Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith

Sub title

a novel

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

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