Human Acts A Novel

<b><b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br> <br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br>The internationally bestselling author of <i>The Vegetarian</i> presents a “rare and astonishing” (<i>The Observer</i>) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.<br></b><br><b>“Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br><b>Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: <i>The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, </i>NPR, <i>HuffPost, Medium, Library Journal</i></b><br><br>Amid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>An award-winning, controversial bestseller, <i>Human Acts</i> 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.