
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 & a brutalised country searches for a voice In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims & the bereaved encounter censorship denial forgiveness & the echoing agony of the original trauma Human Acts is a universal book utterly modern & profoundly timeless Already a controversial bestseller & award-winning book in Korea it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance