Human Acts

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Human Acts (Korean: 소년이 온다; RR: Sonyeoni onda; lit. A Boy Comes) is a South Korean novel written by Han Kang. The novel draws upon the suppression of the Gwangju Uprising in May 1980 by the recently installed government of coup d'état leader Chun Doo-hwan. In the novel, the death of a young boy, Dong-ho, and its defining role in the lives of his friends and family members, allows for a multidimensional analysis of the long-term impact of the crisis on the residents of Gwangju. Human Acts won Korea's Manhae Prize for Literature and Italy's Premio Malaparte.

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