Human Acts
About this book
Translated into English by Deborah Smith
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.
Publishers
- Original publisher Korean: Changbi
- English (UK & Commonwealth): Granta
- English (US): Hogarth
- Albanian: Onufri
- Arabic: Dar Al Tanweer
- Azerbaijan: Strauss
- Catalan: PRH Spain
- Chinese: Beijing Xiron
- Croatian: Hena Com
- Czech: Euromedia
- Danish: Gyldendal
- Dutch: Nijgh & Van Ditmar
- Finnish: Gummerus
- French: Serpent à Plumes
- German: Aufbau
- Hungarian: Jelenkor
- Indonesian: Baca
- Italian: Adelphi Edizioni
- Japanese: Cuon
- Lithuanian: Leidykla Sofoklis
- Mongolian: Monsudar
- Norwegian: Pax
- Polish: Foksal
- Portuguese (Brazil): Todavia
- Romanian: Editura ART
- Russian: AST
- Spanish: PRH Spain
- Swedish: Natur och Kultur
- Taiwanese: Azoth
- Thai: Amarin
- Turkish: April
- Vietnamese: Nha-Nam
About the author & agent
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