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Human Acts

Service95 Recommends Human Acts by Han Kang

Human Acts

Han Kang

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Human Acts by Han Kang is a story of youth, human connection, language and power.

What Min Jin Lee Says: Set against the backdrop of the May 1980 Gwanju Uprising and the tragic loss of a young boy named Kang Dong-ho, this seven-chapter novel is a modern masterwork of historical fiction. By skilfully alternating between narrators and protagonists, Kang paints an elegiac portrait of how a 20th-century South Korean tragedy marked ordinary lives.

What They Say: ”A conversation of which we rarely hear both sides: the living talking to the dead, and the dead speaking back” – Sunday Telegraph

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