{"product_id":"9781846275975","title":"Human Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGwangju, South Korea, 1980.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Acts\u003c\/i\u003e is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. A controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 224 pages | 5.16\" x 7.83\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Han Kang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46979929407720,"sku":"9781846275975x","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_90ffb047-d204-436b-8367-c71f1231e634.jpg?v=1737240060","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781846275975","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}