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8 Books You Need to Read This January

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Article
http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/8-books-you-need-to-read-this-january.html
Journal
Vulture
Issued Date
January 04, 2017
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
New York
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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  • English(English)

Human Acts, by Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith (Hogarth, Jan. 17) Kang’s last novel, The Vegetarian, a best-seller in South Korea and a winner of the Man Booker International Prize, made a grotesque social parable out of a woman’s sudden change of diet. Her new book depicts the fallout of a genuine atrocity — the massacre and torture of dissidents under the country’s 1980s dictatorship — with more devastating results. The long wake of the killings plays out across the testimonies of survivors as well as the dead, in scenarios both gorily real and beautifully surreal, until Kang herself intervenes to explain the personal provenance of her political fiction.

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