Human Acts [electronic resource]
Han, Kang2016
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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.
Main title:
Human Acts [electronic resource] / Han Kang
Author:
Han, Kang, AuthorSmith, Deborah, Translator
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Granta Publications, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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.
Awards:
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded Author (Nobel Foundation)Notable Books for Adults (Notable Books Council)
ISBN:
9781783781621
Language:
English
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BRN:
5883770
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