Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 (1994) described democide as the “murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder in cold blood.” This uprising as an ...

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 opens in a most curious way. It’s told in the second person, which is a unique choice in itself, made more so as you begin to learn about the 15-year-old boy protagonist who is ...

Han Kang has an ambition as large as Milton's struggle with God: She wants to reconcile the ways of humanity to itself. Nonetheless, Human Acts is stunning. Book reviews evaluate how well a book ...

Radiant moments of solidarity are scattered throughout the book: people lining up to ... the 15-year-old boy at the center of Han Kang's "Human Acts," is that he's nearsighted.

Author Han Kang — who won the Man Booker International ... Han grapples with this violent history in her engrossing new novel, “Human Acts.” The book centers on the death of a 15-year ...

What functions as a contextual aside in The Vegetarian turns central to Han Kang's Human Acts, which opens with ... Which is to say that the book is vivid and troubling, but, like the boom mike ...

History overpowers this eerie South Korean novel, which does no disservice to its author. In writing about the vicious events of May 1980 in Gwangju, when students supported trade unionists in a ...

His death will resonate across decades, not only for the characters in Han Kang’s novel ... Much of the first two chapters of Human Acts is dedicated to conveying the magnitude of the atrocity.