Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
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.
TITLE: Human Acts
AUTHOR: Han Kang
SKU: 9781846275975
PUBLISHER: Granta Books
DATE PUBLISHED: 03/11/2016
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 224
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm