Human Acts

Informationen zum Autor 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, was published by Portobello Books in 2015. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Han Kang, Hang Kang
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2016
• EAN: 9781846275968
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-596-8
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 220 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Koreanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Südkoreanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)