Human Acts

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A story of what happened at the Gwangju Uprising in 1980 South Korea, and how it affected people who fought long after the uprising. This is a story of ordinary people who acted upon their very basic human emotions against a dictatorship military that so brutally crushed that humanity. Han's* extensive research, imagination, and dark, beautiful writing made me feel deep, quiet grieving and intense raw emotions, both of the souls in the story and myself.

*In some cultures (like Korea), family names are placed before their given name, and Han is the author's "last name."