Human Acts

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, Guardian Gwangju, 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kang Han, Han Kang, Kang Han
• Mitarbeit: Deborah Smith (Übersetzung), Smith Deborah (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Granta Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781846275975
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-597-5
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Portobello Books
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Südkoreanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary