Human Acts : Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Author(s): Kang, Han
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 03/11/2016,
Pagination: 224 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781846275975,
Description:

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