The story is told in a combination of first-, second-, and third-person narration by those who knew Dong-ho, and it includes Jeong-Dae’s life after death, a book editor’s fight against censorship, a prisoner’s recollection of his captivity and torture, a former factory worker whose memories of the violence are brought up when an author needs her as a “witness,” and Dong-ho’s mother, remembering her son 30 years after his death. Tahar Ben Jelloun.Trans. He’d know we were worrying about him.” “Come by again tomorrow, and the next couple of days,” said the woman in the pale green shirt. As though the raindrops suspended in the air, held breath before the plunge, are on the cusp of trembling down, glittering like jewels. The sound of wailing sobs is faintly audible amid the general commotion. She teaches creative writing at Underwood International College in South Korea. Only the look in her eyes was tough and vigorous. And by placing the reader in the wake of Dong-ho’s memory, preserved by his family and friends, Han has given a voice to those who were lost.”—Publishers Weekly“With exquisitely controlled eloquence, the novel chronicles the tragedy of ordinariness violated…In the echo chambers of Han’s haunting prose, precisely and poetically rendered by Smith, the sound of that heartbeat resonates with defiant humanity.”—New Statesman “Han Kang’s writing is clear and controlled and she handles the explosive, horrifying subject matter with great warmth.”—The Times “Searing…In Human Acts  [Kang] captures the paradox of being human: the meat-like, animal reduction of our humanity—the dead bodies of the beginning chapter – alongside our ability to love and suffer for our principles, and die for them, that make us truly human. Rita S. Nezami, The Queue "—Newsday   “Kang’s forthcoming Human Acts focuses on the 1980 Korean Gwangju Uprising, when Gwangju locals took up arms in retaliation for the massacre of university students who were protesting. Trans. The omnipresence of violence is also counterbalanced by compassion. Han’s prose—as translated by Deborah Smith—is both spare and dreamy, full of haunting images and echoing language. Alex Zucker, The Cowshed: Memories of the Cultural Revolution Eun-sook had been hanging back, and when you told her, “It’s okay, go with them,” her laughter revealed a snaggle-tooth. Deborah Smith, Ailleurs est maintenant One of our neighbors said they saw my friend get hit yesterday, when the soldiers were shooting.” “Mightn’t he just have been wounded and admitted to hospital?” the woman in school uniform interjected, without looking up. “Brothers and sisters, our loved ones are being brought here today from the Red Cross hospital.” The woman then leads the crowd gathered in the square in a chorus of the national anthem. You give the room a thorough once-over, making sure there are no other candles that need to be changed, and walk toward the door. . We don’t have enough people. You’re going to need glasses before long. The water that came out was dark with blood, splattering outside the bucket. What follows is an epic battle of the weak against the strong. It lacerates, it haunts, it dreams, it mourns... ‘Human Acts’ is, in equal parts, beautiful and urgent. Within Kang tries to unknot ‘two unsolvable riddles’ — the intermingling of two innately human yet disparate tendencies, the capacity for cruelty alongside that for selflessness and dignity.” —The Millions   “This novel is a thoughtful and humane answer to difficult questions and a moving tribute to victims of the atrocity.”—BookPage     “South Korean novelist Han first gained attention stateside with The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, last year. The pleated skirt with its pattern of water droplets, which used to come down to her shins, doesn’t even cover her swollen knees now. Human Acts A Novel (Book) : Han, Kang : Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. Bottom line? Philip Boehm, Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s As though there, between those branches, the wind is about to take on visible form. Human Acts grapples with the fallout of a massacre and questions what humans are willing to die for and in turn what they must live through. You stop singing along with the anthem. What do we have to do to keep humanity as one thing and not another?” She never answers, but this act of unflinching witness seems as good a place to start as any.”—Eimear McBride, The Guardian "Harrowing...Han’s novel is an attempt to verbalize something unspeakable… But she humanizes the terrible violence by focusing on the more mundane aspects: tending and transporting bodies, or attempting to work an ordinary job years later.

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