01407nam a22001817a 4500 0 20260614150350.0 9781846275975 KAN H Kang, Han 8407 Human acts London Granta Books 2024 224p. A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. 'Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, Guardian Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. Amid a violent student uprising a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. As his friend searches for Dong-ho's corpse, we also meet an editor struggling against censorship, a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories, and Dong-ho's grief-stricken mother. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope comes a tale of a brutalised people in search of a voice. A modern classic, Human Acts has been both a controversial bestseller and an award-winning book in Korea, and it confirmed Han Kang as a writer of international importance. '[Han Kang's] way of telling about the events of a 10-day insurgency in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980 and its psychological, spiritual and political aftermath opened my eyes' Susie Orbach, Best Books of the Year, Guardian. Fiction 20405 Smith, Deborah (tr.) 20406 B 0 0 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-06-14 499.00 0 KAN H 185842 2026-06-14 2026-06-14 B 0 0 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-07-01 499.00 1 KAN H 185882 2026-07-14 2026-07-11 2026-07-01 B 361422 361422