{"product_id":"9781846275975","title":"Human Acts : Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Kang, Han \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/11\/2016,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781846275975,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55382020129141,"sku":"9781846275975","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781846275975.jpg?v=1747385894","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781846275975","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}