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

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ISBN	9781846275968 (paperback)
ISBN	1846275962
Name	Han, Kang, 1970-
Title	Human acts : a novel / Han Kang ; tralnslated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith.
Published	London : Portobello Books Ltd, 2016.
Published	©2016
Description	224 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	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.
Language note	Translated from the Korean.
Awards note	Winner of the English Pen award.
Subjects	Student protesters -- Korea (South) Fiction
	Censorship -- Fiction
	Bereavement -- Fiction
	Korea (South) -- Fiction
Other Names	Smith, Deborah translator.
Alternate Graphic Representation	한강, 1970-
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Bereavement -- Fiction . Censorship -- Fiction . Korea (South) -- Fiction . Student protesters -- Korea (South) -- Fiction . Authors: Han, Kang, 1970- . Smith, Deborah .