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

By:

Han, Kang [author]

Contributor(s):

Smith, Deborah [translator]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: 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:

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Sta. Lucia Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic H233h 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	133160d

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.

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