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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.

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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.

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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. A beautiful novel about trauma, oppression, censorship and the articulation of wordless, devastating violence.

Author Biography

HAN KANG was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.DEBORAH SMITH's translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang, The Vegetarian and Human Acts, and two by Bae Suah, A Greater Music and Recitation. In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She tweets as @londonkoreanist.

Review

Human Acts is a stunning piece of work. The language is poetic, immediate, and brutal. Han Kang has again proved herself to be a deft artist of storytelling and imagery -- Jess Richards, author * Snake Ropes *An important and necessary book... a devastating and vital a work of literature -- Lucy Scholes * National *A conversation of which we rarely hear both sides: the living talking to the dead, and the dead speaking back * Sunday Telegraph ***** *This ghostly narrative is elliptical and self-conscious about the difficulty of accounting for the legacy of state violence... poignant -- Anthony Cummins * Observer *[Han Kang's] way of telling about the event of a 10-day insurgency on Gwangju, South Korea in 1980 and its psychological, spiritual and political aftermath opened my eyes to the cruelty and viciousness perpetrated on the youth of that city. Her writing is spare and yet clotted with emotion -- Susie Orbach, Best Books of 2016 * Guardian *Han Kang's Human Acts is piercing: an exquisite, painful and deeply courageous account of the 1980 Gwangju massacre -- Philippe Sands, Best Books of 2016 * Guardian *Powerful and disturbing... lyrical and chilling * Mail on Sunday *Powerful -- David Hebblethwaite * Shiny New Books blog *[Han Kang's] way of telling about the events of a 10-day insurgency in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980 and its psychological, spiritual and political aftermath opened my eyes to the cruelty and viciousness perpetrated on the youth of that city. Her writing is spare and yet clotted with emotion -- Susie Orbach, Best Books of 2016 * Guardian *Han Kang's Human Acts is no less piercing: an exquisite, painful and deeply courageous account of the 1980 Gwangju massacre -- Philippe Sands, Best Books of 2016 * Guardian *An extraordinary novel about politics and torture, about the way we memorialize past wrongs. Deborah Smith's translation is typically lucid and readable -- Alex Preston, Best Books of 2016 * Observer *Beautiful and brutal... A fearless examination of the state of humanity and the diagnosis isn't good. This is the pitiless kind of novel that burrows into its reader -- Lisa McInerney * Irish Times *Though there's violence and bloodshed on a large scale in Han's depiction of the Gwangju Uprising, it is the small human movements that I found most vivid. That contrast helped to create the strongest experience of all the books I read this year -- David Hebblethwaite * David's Book World *Raw and beautiful, Han's prose was as contrary as the human acts she described * New Internationalist *[Human Acts] unblinkingly explores the aftermath of one of the darkest moments in South Korean history... It's written with a clear-eyed exactness that is at times horrifying... Ultimately, this is a harrowing novel that deftly examines human cruelty -- Ruchira Sharma * Independent *[A] remarkable novel... A technical and emotional triumph * Daily Telegraph *Han Kang's Human Acts, translated by Deborah Smith, gutted me. The language finds ways to dig in and hold you even as you want to turn from the horror depicted -- Maaza Mengiste * Guardian *Brilliant... Incredibly moving -- Lisa McInerney

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WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: a riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian

Prizes

Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2018 (Ireland)

Long Description

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.

Details ISBN1846275970 Author Deborah Smith Pages 224 Publisher Granta Books Year 2016 ISBN-10 1846275970 ISBN-13 9781846275975 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-11-03 Media Book Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 895.735 Audience Age 0-0 Affiliation Y Translator Deborah Smith Imprint Granta Books Language English UK Release Date 2016-11-03 AU Release Date 2016-11-03 Audience General NZ Release Date 2017-01-02 Subtitle Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature We've got this

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