Human acts : a novel
Kang, Han2024
Book
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.
Main title:
Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith.
Author:
Kang, Han, authorSmith, Deborah, translator, author of introduction, etc
Work:
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2024.©2014
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in Korean as 'The boy is coming', published in 2014 by Changbi Publishers.Translated from the Korean.
ISBN:
9781846275975 (paperback)
Dewey class:
895.735F
Language:
EnglishKorean
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BRN:
2286561