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[Title]
Human Acts - 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner, Han Kang's Korean Novel
[Detail]
216 pages
145*210mm
300g
ISBN : 9788936434120
[Information]
Novelist Han Kang wrote about Gwangju on May 18. When I think of the author’s calm manner in which he stared at the horrific scene, I first think that it will not be easy to read. When I see the pure eyes looking at the dead, for example, “The toes with transparent nail polish on the toenails were clean with no trauma, but over time they became thick and dark like ginger lumps,” I want to close my eyes tightly. But how can I dare do that when reading this story about the deaths that did not return?
Sunday, when I could have taken a midterm exam, slept in, and played badminton. The city is occupied, and Dong-ho, a third-year middle school student, witnesses the death of his friend Jeong-dae. The author recorded the boy’s ten days of collecting corpses coming into the city hall, lighting candles, and holding onto his soul in a novel. The novel begins with the story of a student his father taught, and the question, “Why do I hesitate inexplicably just before saying that student’s name?” “A novel by the Han River that has transcended the Han River,” said the author himself, who said, “I felt I could not go anywhere without going through this novel” (literary critic Shin Hyeong-cheol).
