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

by Han, Kang, 1970-

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Portobello Books, 2016.

Teenage boys -- Fiction.

Highschool students -- Fiction.

Korea (South) -- Fiction.

9781846275975 (trade pbk.)

Sonyŏn i onda. English

224 p. ; 20 cm.

Translated from the Korean.

"A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. 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. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance."--From publisher.

Korean fiction -- Translations into English.

Historical fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

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