Human Acts

　　2016年曼布克獎得主、《素食主義者》韓江最新力作，從一起慘絕人寰的大屠殺，看見一整個世代的困擾與掙扎……。

　　以《素食主義者》一書奪下曼布克獎的韓國作家韓江，這次將筆鋒轉向1980年5月，韓國惡名昭彰的光州事件。

　　格局橫跨32年，《Human Acts》由七個章節組成。這七個故事以不同的敘述者出發，描述內容包括一個少年尋找他在事件中遭射殺身亡的朋友、一個編輯如何面對審查制度、一個囚犯掙扎求生、一個受害者多年後仍被惡夢纏身……，所有的故事最後都以15歲男孩Dong-Ho為中心連結在一起，最後以作者本身對此事件的反思作結。

　　隨著時間過去，即使身上的傷痕痊癒了，但心靈的瘡疤仍在，留下一整個世代困在事件的記憶中，無法前進。韓江的《Human Acts》記述了一個悲傷的年代，為失去聲音的人們發聲，也再次以此傑作，證明她在文壇上的重要地位。(文/博客來編譯)

　　Gwangju, 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. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.

作者簡介

　　Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet, and was first published as a novelist in 1994. A participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Han has won the Man Booker International Prize, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Manhae Prize for Literature. She currently works as a professor in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.