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Human Acts

Author

Han Kang

Publisher

Changbi Publishers, Inc.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

English,Catalan,Czech,Dutch,French,German,Indonesian,Japanese,Italian,Norwegian,Portuguese,Romanian,Spanish,Swedish,Taiwanese

Keywords

  • #Literature
  • #Korean writer Han Kang
  • #democratic movement
  • #Minorities in society

Copyright Contact

Bang Ally

  • Publication Date

    2014-05-19
  • No. of pages

    215
  • ISBN

    9788936434120
  • Dimensions

    145 * 210
Overview

This novel vividly portrays the inner pain of those who have survived the Gwangju Upspring and includes a character named Dongho, a middle school student who has fought against a military army.

Book Intro

Han Kang sheds a new light on the May 18th Gwangju Democratization Movement through her dedicated efforts to see through the structure of wounds. Her story about a fifteen-year-old boy, which was published in “Windows,” a literary blog managed by Changbi Publishing from November 2013 to January 2014, has gained a lot of attention.

Han Kang prompts people who are living without remembering May 18th to bring the day back into their memories, using sentences that deliver the messages of the innocent souls while comforting those who have been leading hard lives and still suffering from the trauma of May 18th.

Human Acts vividly portrays the inner pain of those who have survived the Gwangju Upspring and includes a character named Dongho, a middle school student who has fought against a military army. Her thorough description of the horrible situations “evokes certain sensations in readers and calls for them to remember the historical facts we must hold onto” (from the commentary by a literary critic Baek Jiyeon).

As the author confessed that she “could not avoid writing this novel” and “felt as if I won’t be able to go anywhere without passing through this story,” Human Acts is the work that expanded her literary world. As put by a literary critic Shin Hyeongcheol, “Han Kang’s novel surpasses Han Kang herself.”

About the Author

Han Kang



Award

Aladdin, 2014, Top 10 Books of the Year


Malaparte Literary Award


Selection

National School Librarian Council, 2018, Recommended Book


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