Human Acts
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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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.
Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. A controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.
About this Author
HAN KANG was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
Reviews
"Human Acts is a stunning piece of work. The language is poetic, immediate, and brutal. Han Kang has again proved herself to be a deft artist of storytelling and imagery." - Jess Richards, author, Snake Ropes
"An important and necessary book... a devastating and vital a work of literature" - Lucy Scholes, The National
"A conversation of which we rarely hear both sides: the living talking to the dead, and the dead speaking back." - Sunday Telegraph
Han Kang is the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel, The Vegetarian
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