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Human Acts

Han Kang

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 2014
Originally in
Originally in Korean
Pages
Pages 220

A boy laying out the dead after soldiers fire on his city is killed himself, and the people around him carry it for decades: his friend's soul, a censored editor, a prisoner, a factory girl, his mother.

After you died I could not hold a funeral, And so my life became a funeral.
Human Acts, Han Kang

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