Human acts : a novel /
Han, Kang, 1970-
Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith. - 224 pages ; 22 cm
Originally published in Korean as [The Boy is Coming] by Changbi Publishers in 2014.
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.
9781846275975 1846275962 9781846275968
Democratization--History--Korea (South)--20th century--Fiction.
Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960-1988--Fiction.
Korea (South)--Fiction.
PL992.26.K36 / S6613 2016
Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith. - 224 pages ; 22 cm
Originally published in Korean as [The Boy is Coming] by Changbi Publishers in 2014.
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.
9781846275975 1846275962 9781846275968
Democratization--History--Korea (South)--20th century--Fiction.
Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960-1988--Fiction.
Korea (South)--Fiction.
PL992.26.K36 / S6613 2016