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How Han Kang made herself a conduit for memories of an atrocity in South Korea

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Article
http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1913655/how-han-kang-made-herself-conduit-memories-atrocity-south-korea
Journal
South China Morning Post
Issued Date
February 18, 2016
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
CHINA
City
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Book
Human Acts
Writer
Han Kang
Translator
Deborah Smith

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 161
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The poet and novelist says that something broke inside her teenage self when she found out about the 1980 massacre of student protestors in Gwangju, and her acclaimed new novel tries to make sense of the human propensity for violence Source: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1913655/how-han-kang-made-herself-conduit-memories-atrocity-south-korea

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