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Human Acts

Human Acts( )
Author: Kang, Han
ISBN:978-1-84627-596-8
Publication Date:Jan 2016
Publisher:Portobello Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $27.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):21.717 x 21.488 x 1.651 cm
Book Weight:0.23 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kang, Han (Author)
Han Kang was born on November 27, 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She is an author. Her novels in English include The Vegetarian and Convalescence. Her works published in Korea include A Convict's Love, Mongolian Mark, Fruits of My Woman, The Black Deer, Your Cold Hand, Breath Fighting, and Greek Lessons. She has received several awards including the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, the Korean Literature Novel Award, and the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian.

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