Human Acts
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma.
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- Year
- 2018
- ISBN-13
- 9788416738359
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- State violence and traumaGrief and memoryPolitical oppression and censorship
Awards
- International Dublin Literary AwardShortlistedMajor(2018)
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