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Human Acts

Author

Han Kang

Language

Korean

Year

2014

Country

South Korea

Genre

Novel

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Human Acts is a South Korean novel written by Han Kang. The novel draws upon the democratization uprising that occurred on 18 May 1980, in Gwangju, Korea. In the novel, one boy's death provides the impetus for a dimensional look into the Gwangju Uprising and the lives of the people in that city. Human Acts won Korea's Manhae Prize for Literature and Italy's Premio Malaparte.