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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publisher: London : Portobello Books, 2016Description: 224 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781846275975
  • 1846275962
  • 9781846275968
Uniform titles:
  • Sonyŏn i onda. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PL992.26.K36 S6613 2016
Summary: 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.
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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.

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