TY  - BOOK
AU  - Han, Kang
AU  - Smith, Deborah
TI  - Human Acts: : A Novel
SN  - 9781101906743
AV  - PL992.26.K36 S6613  
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Hogarth, 
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History
KW  -  20th century
KW  -  Korea (South)
N2  - 
Amid 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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