TY - BOOK AU - Han,Kang AU - Smith,Deborah TI - Human acts: a novel SN - 9781846275975 AV - PL992.26.K36 S6613 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Portobello Books KW - Democratization KW - Korea (South) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Fiction KW - Politics and government KW - 1960-1988 N1 - Originally published in Korean as [The Boy is Coming] by Changbi Publishers in 2014 N2 - 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 ER -