{"product_id":"books-human-acts-by-han-kang","title":"Human Acts","description":"A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.\n\n'Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, Guardian\n \nGwangju, South Korea, 1980. Amid a violent student uprising a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. As his friend searches for Dong-ho's corpse, we also meet an editor struggling against censorship, a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories, and Dong-ho's grief-stricken mother. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope comes a tale of a brutalised people in search of a voice. \n\nA modern classic, Human Acts has been both a controversial bestseller and an award-winning book in Korea, and it confirmed Han Kang as a writer of international importance. \n\n'[Han Kang's] way of telling about the events of a 10-day insurgency in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980 and its psychological, spiritual and political aftermath opened my eyes' Susie Orbach, Best Books of the Year, Guardian","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53767159185681,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781846275975.jpg?v=1783934046","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-human-acts-by-han-kang","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}