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Human Acts is a riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful examination of humanity at its most appalling, and its most hopeful. It is an act of extraordinary resistance and a refusal to forget. A young boy searches for his friend among the corpses. He lights candles. He waits. A brutal military crackdown has left hundreds of innocent students and civilians dead in the Korean city of Gwangju and more bodies are arriving every hour. His dead friend, Dong-Ho, lies piled up with other bodies, dumped in an unmarked grave. He feels his spirit separating from his decaying body. He considers the soldiers who killed him and the bird-like souls that hover nearby. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Throughout Human Acts the ghost memory of the boy Dong-Ho wanders, refusing to disappear, and so in turn other characters refuse to stop asking why. Why does power exert itself with brutality? Why does the state silence the enquiries of the bereaved? Why does remembrance pose such a threat to the powerful? Human Acts is a radically brave novel about an atrocious episode in Korean history, but it is also a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of colossal importance.

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• Plný název: Human Acts
• Autor: Han Kang
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 224
• EAN: 9781846275968
• ISBN: 1846275962
• ID: 09384747
• Nakladatelství: Portobello Books
• Hmotnost: 280 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 135 × 18 mm
• Datum vydání: 07. January 2016

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