Human Acts

By Han Kang

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846275970
• ISBN13: 9781846275975
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"