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Human Acts

Han Kang

Hardcover | Pages: 218 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 11950 Users | 2011 Reviews

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Original Title:	소년이 온다
ISBN:	1101906723 (ISBN13: 9781101906729)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	South Korea,1980(Korea, Republic of)
Literary Awards:	Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2018)

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.

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Title	:	Human Acts
Author	:	Han Kang
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 218 pages
Published	:	January 17th 2017 by Hogarth Press (first published May 19th 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction. Cultural. Asia

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Ratings: 4.16 From 11950 Users | 2011 Reviews

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So, hundredth read of the year!-----------Background:On may 18, 1980 South Korean citizens saw an opportunity to end their non-democratized government when military government was forced. Students from Chonnam University were the first bunch of people to initiate the protest, followed by other students and people all over the town. They started robbing government offices and police stations. As a counter strike, military fired arms and killed around six hundred citizens making that uprising one

Humanity's essential barbarism is exacerbated not by the especially barbaric nature of any of the individuals involved but through that magnification which occurs naturally in crowds .The Putrefying Bodies piled up into one massive heap, fused in a single mass like the rotting carcass of some multi-legged monster, the blood of its collective hearts surging together into one enormous artery stained the streets in a congealed pool of crimson. Throughout human history, the brutality of wars has

I had mixed feelings after finishing Kang's The Vegetarian, but I cannot deny that the book sucked me right into it's dark, weird allegory. Which is why I'm surprised that this book left me feeling cold and detached. It feels so distant and impersonal, lacking an atmosphere worthy of the subject matter.Human Acts tells an important story that I'm sure many people know nothing about - that of the South Korean Gwangju Uprising in 1980. In a daring plot choice that should have been far more

Human Acts was my second Han Kang book, and honestly I couldn't fault it. I rarely give out 5 star ratings, but I just couldn't find anything to dislike about this book. Human Acts is based on real-life historical events, where Kang depicts the lives of several characters who are all connected by the events of the suppressed student uprising in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980. Each perspective travels a little further through time to show how incredibly painful and far-reaching the events of the

The novel at first felt fragmentary, stuttering, hesitant, and understated, but as I read along every sentence, every thought built upon the last, until the story became not only a interwoven chronicle of wrenching human happenings, but also an examination of how humans behave toward one another; how people behave in crowds; how human beings survive trauma (or not); and how they find meaning in the aftermath of unrelenting tragedy. There was nothing cinematic about the treatment of the Gwangju

So sad. I have no words, only tears...

It took a bit to really get into the story but once I did, I loved it.