Human acts : a novel
Han, Kang
Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith - 224 pages
Originally published in Korean as [The Boy is Coming] by Changbi Publishers in 2014.
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.
Translated from Korean.
9781846275975
Democratization--History--Korea (South)--20th century--Fiction
Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960-1988--Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic
Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith - 224 pages
Originally published in Korean as [The Boy is Coming] by Changbi Publishers in 2014.
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.
Translated from Korean.
9781846275975
Democratization--History--Korea (South)--20th century--Fiction
Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960-1988--Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic