Han Kang Human Acts (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Human ActsCondition: NewEAN: 9781846275975ISBN: 9781846275975Publisher: Granta BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/03/2016Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 173gAuthor: Han KangTranslator: Deborah SmithContributor: Deborah Smith (Translated by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1846275970Description: A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.'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, GuardianCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionSubtitle: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in LiteratureRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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