Human Acts

By:

Han, Kang

Contributor(s):

Smith, Deborah (Translator)

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London Granta Publications 2014Edition: 1stDescription: 224pISBN:

9781846275975 (PB)

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Summary: 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.

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BOOKS List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals (16 April 2024)

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IMSc Library	82-3 KAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Checked out	04/08/2026	77551

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.

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