«An important and necessary book... a devastating and vital a work of literature»
Lucy Scholes, National
A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.
'Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, Guardian
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980.
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«An important and necessary book... a devastating and vital a work of literature»
Lucy Scholes, National
«Human Acts is a stunning piece of work. The language is poetic, immediate, and brutal. Han Kang has again proved herself to be a deft artist of storytelling and imagery»
Jess Richards, author, Snake Ropes
«[Han Kang's] way of telling about the event of a 10-day insurgency on Gwangju, South Korea in 1980 and its psychological, spiritual and political aftermath opened my eyes to the cruelty and viciousness perpetrated on the youth of that city. Her writing is spare and yet clotted with emotion»
Susie Orbach, Best Books of 2016, Guardian
«Powerful and disturbing... lyrical and chilling»
Mail on Sunday
«Powerful»
David Hebblethwaite, Shiny New Books blog
«A conversation of which we rarely hear both sides: the living talking to the dead, and the dead speaking back»
Sunday Telegraph *****
«This ghostly narrative is elliptical and self-conscious about the difficulty of accounting for the legacy of state violence... poignant»
Anthony Cummins, Observer
«Beautiful and brutal... A fearless examination of the state of humanity and the diagnosis isn't good. This is the pitiless kind of novel that burrows into its reader»
Lisa McInerney, Irish Times
«Raw and beautiful, Han's prose was as contrary as the human acts she described»
New Internationalist
«[Human Acts] unblinkingly explores the aftermath of one of the darkest moments in South Korean history... It's written with a clear-eyed exactness that is at times horrifying... Ultimately, this is a harrowing novel that deftly examines human cruelty»
Ruchira Sharma, Independent
«[A] remarkable novel... A technical and emotional triumph»
Daily Telegraph
– Vanligvis forbinder vi kanskje Sør- Kora med framskritt - i vestlig forstand - og en vellykket økonomisk vekst. Slik har det ikke alltid vært. Landet var tidligere styrt av militære. Romanen Human Acts gir et godt innblikk i et Sør-Korea som de fleste av oss kjenner lite til.