by Han Kang · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439745549
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In May 1980, the city of Gwangju, South Korea, rises up against the military dictatorship. Han Kang's polyphonic novel 'Human Acts' narrates the brutal repression of these protests and the lasting impact on the victims and survivors. Through multiple voices, the author explores themes of censorship, denial, forgiveness, and memory, paying tribute to those who suffered during this tragic historical episode. A moving and universal work about human violence and the search for voice in the midst of repression.
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
