Human Acts: A Novel

From Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Amid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.