Human Acts by Han Kang growing inequality and climate change

growing inequality and climate change - that concern us all

ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins

a young Englishwoman living in Malaya

Recipes range from exotic Indian meals to old American favorites

and the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two

Human Acts by Han Kang growing inequality and climate changeGwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless.