Jim Brown reviewed Human Acts by Han Kang
From the internationally bestselling author of “The Vegetarian,” a rare and astonishing (The Observer) portrait …
Generational Trauma of Gwangju Uprising
I didn't know anything about the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, but this book lays out the brutality of it by tracing the narratives of victims as well as victims' friends and families.
Kang is the writer for this task, and while I didn't find this "compulsively readable" (the NYT Book Review described it that way), it is an impressive and devastating novel.