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Human Acts

by Han Kang


  • Granta (Faber)
A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the winner of the 2024 Nobel prize for fiction, Han Kang. 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.

ISBN 9781803512037 | EN | PB
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Publisher Granta (Faber)
ISBN 9781803512037
Publication date January 2025
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 240
Language(s) English ed.
extra information Nobel Prize for Literature 2024
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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the winner of the 2024 Nobel prize for fiction, Han Kang.

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.