A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.<\/p>\n
‘Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous’ Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, Guardian<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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