Human Acts

Human Acts

By: Han Kang

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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the 2025 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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. A controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.

Details & specs

Publisher name:
Granta Publications

Publication date:
2016-11-03

Format:
Paperback / softback | B-format paperback

Distributor:
Granta Publications

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