From psychological spirals to brutal metaphors, these novels grow more disturbing the more you reflect on them, and their ...

Mandarins are important in this book. So are (in no particular order) trees, snowflakes, oceans, birds, human skeletons, ...

We find her in the throes of despair after publishing a novel about “a massacre at G—” (is Han Kang alluding to her own self post Human Acts ... consciousness. The book is no longer ...

Han Kang, the recipient of ... the 1980 Gwangju massacre in the novel “Human Acts,” which she considers to be of a “pair” with her latest book. Echoes of “Human Acts” linger throughout ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. There’s a new novel out by Han Kang, winner of the ... in Korean in 2021. If her Human Acts, translated into English in 2016 by ...

Han Kang is ... of 2017’s Human Acts learns about the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which around 2,000 students and workers were massacred by the Korean army, from a hidden book of photographs ...

Han Kang’s ... In her books, she said, it was never her intention to turn from one tragic chapter of modern Korean history to another. But after “Human Acts,” the Gwangju novel, was ...

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part ... traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” It is pain—whether from large-scale acts of violence or quietly self-inflicted wounds ...

South Korean author Han Kang’s latest ... audiences know as “Human Acts.” Ever attuned to her creative process, the dream ended up catalyzing the new book, deepening the resonance of Kyungha ...

Just weeks after her groundbreaking Nobel Prize win, Han Kang‘s books ... is that among her titles, “Human Acts” holds the No. 1 spot on both Kyobo Book Center, the country’s largest ...

Han Kang’s “Human Acts” has topped this year’s bestseller ... rankings released Monday by major booksellers -- Kyobo Book Center, the country’s largest bookstore chain, and Yes24 ...