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Human Acts by Han Kang; trans. Deborah Smith, book review

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Article
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/human-acts-by-han-kang-trans-deborah-smith-book-review-a6791091.html
Journal
Independent
Issued Date
December 31, 2015
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
London
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 : 160
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  • English(English)

In Human Acts, resistance comes as political struggle on a civic scale, tracing the real events of the Gwangju uprising of May 1980 which saw students fired upon, beaten and killed as they demonstrated against Chun Doo-hwan's martial regime. That world, bloody, brutal, full of corpses in streets and school gymnasiums, is how we enter Han's story, observing the wreckage of bodies through ghost eyes, or the eyes of those who shall soon be dead, and then, in later chapters, by the survivors who are, in some senses, the living dead, unable to overcome the trauma of both their torture and their survival. Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/human-acts-by-han-kang-trans-deborah-smith-book-review-a6791091.html

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