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  • Human Acts

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Human Acts

by Kang Han.

Translated from Korean by Deborah Smith.

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  • Paperback published on 03/11/2016
  • Page count: 224 pages
  • ISBN: 9781846275975
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Synopsis

When a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed in the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope unfolds the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

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About the author

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 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. 

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