Penguin Books Human Acts - Han Kang

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Isbn: 9781846275975

author: han kang

publisher: granta books

language: english

binding: paperback

summary: an riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the international booker prize-winning novel the vegetarian.

'exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' philippe sands, best books of the year, guardian gwangju, south korea, 1980. Amid a violent student uprising, a young boy named dong-ho is killed.

as his friend searches for dong-ho's corpse, we also meet an editor struggling against censorship, a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories, and dong-ho's grief-stricken mother.

through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope comes a tale of a brutalised people in search of a voice.

a modern classic, human acts has been both a controversial bestseller and an award-winning book in korea, and it confirmed han kang as a writer of international importance.

[han kang's] way of telling about the events of a 10-day insurgency in gwangju, south korea in 1980 and its psychological, spiritual and political aftermath opened my eyes' susie orbach, best books of the year, guardian

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