Al maig del 1980, a la ciutat de Gwangju l'exèrcit va sufocar una revolta popular provocant milers de morts. Actes humans reviu aquells fets terribles a través de les experiències de set personatges diferents: la tortura, la por,...
»Griechischstunden« erzählt die Geschichte zweier gewöhnlicher Menschen, die sich in einem Moment privater Angst begegnen. Han Kang hat einen schillernden Roman über die rettende Gnade der Sprache geschrieben.
â[Han Kangâs] intense poetic prose . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.ââThe Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize...
Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.
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...
From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning inves...
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian , a "rare and astonishing" ( The Observer ) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like'...