Human acts : a novel

Author(s)

• 韓, 江 한, 강
• Smith, Deborah

Bibliographic Information

Human acts : a novel

Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith

Portobello Books, 2016

• : pbk

Other Title

소년이 온다

Note

Translated from the Korean

Originally published: Changbi Pub. , 2014

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB23666742
• ISBN:
  • 9781846275968
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: kor
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 224 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL992.26.K36
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Korea (South) -- Fiction
  • FREE : Democratization--Korea (South)--History--20th century--Fiction
  • FREE : Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960---Fiction