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Human Acts

Han Kang

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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.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Han Kang EAN: 9781846275975 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 173 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Granta Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-11-03 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Political WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction in translation

      Format: Paperback / softback

      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.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Han Kang EAN: 9781846275975 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 173 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Granta Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-11-03 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Political WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction in translation

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      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 is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, forthcoming 2017). She is based in Seoul.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.
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