01649nam a22002057a 4500003000200000005001700002020001800019082001100037100002000048245001500068260003100083300001000114520102500124650001901149700003201168942000601200952010301206952011501309999001901424020260614150350.0  a9781846275975  aKAN H   aKang, Han98407  aHuman acts  aLondonbGranta Booksc2024  a224p.  aA 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.  aFiction920405  aSmith, Deborah (tr.)920406  cB  00104070aLBSNAAbLBSNAAd2026-06-14g499.00l0oKAN H p185842r2026-06-14w2026-06-14yB0x2  00104070aLBSNAAbLBSNAAd2026-07-01g499.00l1oKAN H p185882r2026-07-14s2026-07-11w2026-07-01yB0x2  c361422d361422