Human Acts

Loosely connected fragments and lives centred around the 1980 Gwangju uprising when the South Korean government brutally killed and tortured many students. We inhabit different minds, in the past and the present, of the living, the survivors, and the dead. The novel questions the acts we as humans are able to commit against each other, and the scars and weight those who suffered have to carry with them forever. I love Han's [b:The Vegetarian 25489025 The Vegetarian Han Kang https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1478196580s/25489025.jpg 18449744] but I couldn't quite connect with this one. The writing is beautiful and haunting, yet it had too many POVs for my taste and the storytelling was too vague, too torn.