Local cover image
Local cover image

Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Portobello Books, 2016Description: 224 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781846275975
Uniform titles:
  • Sonyŏn i onda. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • Fic
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Browsing Sta. Lucia Branch shelves, Shelving location: Fiction Area, Collection: Fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
Fic H141j 2001 Joshua's hammer Fic H141k bk. 2 Countdown Fic H141k bk. 9 The kill zone Fic H233h 2016 Human acts : a novel Fic H315c bk. 1 Imperium Fic H678o bk. 2 Secrets to the grave Fic H789l 2020 Layla

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer

Local cover image