Human Acts

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From The Internationally Best Selling Author of The Vegetarian 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.