Human Acts

Press Reviews

• The Guardianby Anthony Cummins · Feb 2025

  The Nobel prize-winner’s strange and unsettling new novel takes its protagonist on a mission that ends up confronting terrible pre-war violence

• The Guardianby Alex Clark · May 2023

  A woman who has lost the power of speech forms a connection with a language teacher who is losing his sight in the Korean author’s striking examination of selfhood

• The Guardianby Anthony Cummins · Nov 2016

  South Korean writer Han Kang confronts her country’s brutal history of state violence