Human Acts

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a 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. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea.