Human Acts
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: London Granta Publications 2014Edition: 1stDescription: 224pISBN: 9781846275975 (PB)Subject(s): Democratization | Korea South | Fiction | GeneralSummary: 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.Current library | Home library | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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