Record Number |
760992 |
ISBN |
9781846275975 (paperback) |
Author |
Han, Kang, 1970- author. |
Title |
Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Portobello Books, 2016. |
©2016 |
Pagination etc. |
224 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents note |
Originally published in Korean as 'The boy is coming', published in 2014 by Changbi Publishers. |
Summary Note |
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. |
Language note |
Translated from the Korean. |
Subject |
Democratization -- Korea (South)History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
Student protesters -- Korea (South)Fiction |
Censorship -- Fiction |
Bereavement -- Fiction |
Korean fiction -- Translations into English |
Korea (South) -- Politics and government -- 1960-Fiction |
Korea (South) -- Fiction |
Added Author |
Smith, Deborah translator, author of introduction, etc. |
Shelf Location |
F HAN |