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Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith.

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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
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