A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. 'Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, Guardian Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. Amid a violent student uprising a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. As his friend searches for Dong-ho's corpse, we also meet an editor struggling against censorship, a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories, and Dong-ho's grief-stricken mother. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope comes a tale of a brutalised people in search of a voice. A modern classic, Human Acts has been both a controversial bestseller and an award-winning book in Korea, and it confirmed Han Kang as a writer of international importance. '[Han Kang's] way of telling about the events of a 10-day insurgency in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980 and its psychological, spiritual and political aftermath opened my eyes' Susie Orbach, Best Books of the Year, Guardian
Han Hangs verk behandlar Gwangju-upproret i Sydkorea: de som dog, de som överlevde, och vad som för de överlevande ändå dog eller lämnades kvar i det våld och kaos de slängdes in i i sin kamp för frihet.
Human Acts är en vackert skriven, gripande och stundtals obehaglig bok vars karaktärer och händelser berör en långt in på djupet samtidigt som det behandlar en om än relativt okänd så väldigt viktig händelse.
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