Human Acts

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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Han Kang - Хан Канг

Publisher:Granta Books

Language:English

Publication Date:2016

Number of pages:224 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:129 mm / 5,1'

Height:198 mm / 7,8'

Weight:173 g

ISBN:9781846275975