Human Acts
Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
By Han Kang (Y)
Translated by Deborah Smith, Translated by Deborah Smith
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. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.
- ISBN:
- 9781846275975
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 224
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Granta Books
- Imprint:
- Granta Books
- Weight:
- 173 g