EAN: 9781101906743

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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.Compulsively readable universally relevant and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent. The New York Times Book ReviewShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award One of the Best Books of the Year: The Atlantic San Francisco Chronicle NPR HuffPost Medium Library JournalAmid 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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