Human Acts, a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith
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Human Acts, a novel, Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith
Language
eng
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Literary form
fiction
Main title
Human Acts
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967937376
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Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith
Sub title
a novel
Summary
One of Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2017. The Observer In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice. An award-winning, controversial bestseller, HUMAN ACTS is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanityFollows the aftermath of a young boy's shocking death during a violent student uprising as told from the perspectives of the event's victims and their loved ones
Table of contents
The boy, 1980 -- The boy's friend, 1980 -- The editor, 1985 -- The prisoner, 1990 -- The factory girl, 2002 -- The boy's mother, 2010 -- Epilogue: the writer, 2013
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adult
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