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Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In The Wake Of A Viciously Suppressed Student Uprising, A Boy Searches For His Friend's Corpse, A Consciousness Searches For Its Abandoned Body, And A Brutalised Country Searches For A Voice. In A Sequence Of Interconnected Chapters The Victims And The Bereaved Encounter Censorship, Denial, Forgiveness And The Echoing Agony Of The Original Trauma. Human Acts Is 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 Immense Importance.