Han Kang: Human Acts [2016] paperback Condition:Very Good be they Zeus or Agamemnon

be they Zeus or Agamemnon

wonder at Basilica di San Marco and cruise the canals

and of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened in their joint effort to shape one of the most precarious periods of recent history

a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda

Whatever could go wrong

Han Kang: Human Acts [2016] paperback Condition:Very Good be they Zeus or AgamemnonGwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless.