In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. His death is just the beginning.
Through a series of interconnected chapters, Human Acts follows those left behind—Dong-ho’s grieving mother, his doomed best friend, an editor fighting against censorship, and prisoners haunted by trauma. Each voice tells a piece of a greater tragedy, capturing the echoes of brutality and the search for justice in a world eager to forget.
From Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Vegetarian, this internationally acclaimed novel is a profound meditation on loss, resilience, and the indelible mark of history. Unflinching yet poetic, Human Acts is an urgent and unforgettable masterpiece.
