Human Acts [electronic resource] : Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
Han, Kang, 1970-2016
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A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.'Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, GuardianGwangju, South Korea, 1980. Amid a violent student uprising a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. As his friend searches for Dong-ho's corpse, we also meet an editor struggling against censorship, a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories, and Dong-ho's grief-stricken mother. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope comes a tale of a brutalised people in search of a voice.A modern classic, Human Acts has been both a controversial bestseller and an award-winning book in Korea, and it confirmed Han Kang as a writer of international importance.'(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' Susie Orbach, Best Books of the Year, Guardian
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Han, Kang, 1970-, authorCloud
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[S.l.] : Granta Publications, 2016.
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1 online resource
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Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Granta Publications 2016 Available via World Wide Web.
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9781783781621
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818497