by Han Kang · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253909989
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Set in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, the novel follows the aftermath of a student uprising and its violent suppression. Through various perspectives, including a young boy looking for his friend's body and survivors in the present day, Han Kang explores historical trauma and the resilience of the human spirit.
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".
