Human Acts

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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student u prising, 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. A controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance. Paperback | 224 pages | 5.16" x 7.83" Show more