Han Kang (Y)
Broschiertes Buch
Human Acts
Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
Übersetzung: Smith, Deborah
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A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.
Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The White Book (Portobello, forthcoming 2017). She is based in Seoul. Deborah Smith's translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang, The Vegetarian and Human Acts, and two by Bae Suah, A Greater Music and Recitation. In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She tweets as @londonkoreanist.
Produktdetails
- Verlag: Granta Books / Portobello
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 176g
- ISBN-13: 9781846275975
- ISBN-10: 1846275970
- Artikelnr.: 44567966
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The story definitely packs a punch and is super impactful- as any violation of human rights should be. The stories told are all horrific, the description of corpses, the description of torture, of what it took for people to survive and what it did to the family members of those who were murdered. …
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The story definitely packs a punch and is super impactful- as any violation of human rights should be. The stories told are all horrific, the description of corpses, the description of torture, of what it took for people to survive and what it did to the family members of those who were murdered. It's moving and terrifying and really makes you feel for every character who gets to tell their story.
The writing fits the story, it's flowery but in a kinda hard to read way. It's not bad or anything, it just takes a while to read, which is hard to describe.
However I didn't really enjoy the way the story is told- the second person narration somehow distanced me from the story and the abrupt changes between the characters put me off as well, but I know why it was written this way. None of these people got a proper ending or a comfortable glide into another part of their life, so it makes sense that the chapters don't comfortably lead you into the story and then out of it again.
Overall it's definitely a book worth reading and many stories worth being told, I just wish it had never been necessary to tell this in the first place.
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Wonderful book. Not the first book that I read from Han Kang, but definitely my fav so far. It is a heavy book, weights on conscience. It's a look back at 1980's Gwangju uprising. I am very much drawn to the different narrative, the prose style (a wonderful translation in English), and the depth it …
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Wonderful book. Not the first book that I read from Han Kang, but definitely my fav so far. It is a heavy book, weights on conscience. It's a look back at 1980's Gwangju uprising. I am very much drawn to the different narrative, the prose style (a wonderful translation in English), and the depth it delved into.
The book has also a dooming gloomy color. The interpretation of colours are very well perceived in the book. As I read, I could feel the blue, the moon light color and so on. Interestingly, she has a book entitled White. A good book too!
Right now the world is also swirling with uprising and it is healing yet painful to read this powerful book. Korea is a country that bears so much, yet managed to reflect, and give way to the light and future.
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