Human Acts

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781846275975
Published: November 2016

Number of pages: 224
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 14 mm

Publisher: Granta Books