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Human Acts

A Novel

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Human Acts

De: Han Kang, Deborah Smith
Narrado por: Sandra Oh, Deborah Smith - introduction, Greta Jung, Jae Jung, Jennifer Kim, Raymond J. Lee, Keong Sim
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FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation

The internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian presents a “rare and astonishing” (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.

“Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent.”—The New York Times Book Review

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, HuffPost, Medium, Library Journal

Amid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.

Read by Sandra Oh, Greta Jung, Jae Jung, Jennifer Kim, Raymond J. Lee, and Keong Sim, with an introduction read by Deborah Smith

©2017 Han Kang (P)2017 Random House Audio Ficción Ficción Histórica Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Literatura Mundial Psicológico Sincero Korean Authors

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“Stunning . . . Han Kang has an ambition as large as Milton’s struggle with God: She wants to reconcile the ways of humanity to itself.”—NPR

“Human Acts is unique in the intensity and scale of this brutality. . . . The novel details a bloody history that was deliberately forgotten and is only now being recovered.”—The Nation

“Exquisitely crafted.”—O: the Oprah Magazine
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Unless you understand, you will not know. Unless you're Korean, you might not understand. Unless you're human, you will not understand what it is to be in Korea.

Rebellion Sweet

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This work though masterfully written was almost too dark for my tastes. Depression is not a place I like to visit but this work leaves me there on the cusp. Social and political upheaval are best visited from far,far away.

Well written darkness

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While reading the final chapter from the mother’s point of view, I felt as though I couldn’t breathe. The pain of losing a son, the vivid memories of joy when he was born, and the unbearable sorrow of witnessing his death overwhelmed me. This book is a reminder that Korea’s democracy was not given freely—it was built on the blood of the brave. I wonder what today’s youth think of such sacrifice. Ironically, the language used in this book is hauntingly beautiful, filled with poetic depth even in describing pain. A masterpiece in every sense.

Unforgettable and devastatingly beautiful

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I never knew about that massacre till now. life changing book on how I look at our government abd koreas

The history and information

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the details that described in each different situations, the sorrow, brutality, hurts, and some healing follows.

heart aching

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This is a truly horrific novel about a South Korean uprising in 1980 but it lacks historical context.

For one unfamiliar with South Korean history, the intent of describing the consequence of government slaughter of innocents is subsumed by numberless atrocities of the past. Kang undoubtedly intends to recount an historical event with universal meaning but succeeds in only offering a cathartic exercise for a gifted writer.

Man's inhumanity to man is an historical fact. Novels about government atrocity are mentally numbing without historical context.

The reality of today's North Korea is more mindfully present than Kang's un-contextualized story of South Korea. "Human Acts" is a disappointing novel.

CONTEXT

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the drones on endlessly about dead bodies by the end of the second chapter I was totally bored.

Tedious

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This is supposed to be a book about one of the most cruel period of Korean modern history.

I’m sure if you are Korean it will all make a lot of sense but for me it’s just a collection of novels with a common red line going across them - and they’re not very good. They are sad, but they’re not very engaging. You’re left wondering about what these people gone through more than you actually understand what they gone through.

Written for an Korean audience

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The book and story are amazing. I love Han Kang's writing style. But this book is told through different characters with different genders. So, to place a female voice in the first chapter to read a boy's part (the boy's) is extremely confusing for the reader who is waiting for this boy to appear (who knows nothing about this book!), who is the centerpiece of the story. Have a boy read for the boy to not confuse the reader and to stay true to the text and its meaning as much as possible. Everyone else's part as far as I know is accurate as the boy's mother is played by a female voice that sounds older. I think it has something to do with the celebrity pecking order. More fame gets more claim but makes the audible lame, let's keep the characters same-same (male character-male voice and so on). If you are not Korean, it's also difficult to understand the complex relationship between gender and names! Being progressive doesn't mean being dismissive of critical thinking.

Watchout for female reading the boy's part ch. 1!!

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The book goes on and on describing dead bodies and there is hardly any plot. I also hate the second person narration.

Boring description, no plot

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