Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Human Acts by Han Kang is a story of youth, human connection, language and power.
What Min Jin Lee Says: Set against the backdrop of the May 1980 Gwanju Uprising and the tragic loss of a young boy named Kang Dong-ho, this seven-chapter novel is a modern masterwork of historical fiction. By skilfully alternating between narrators and protagonists, Kang paints an elegiac portrait of how a 20th-century South Korean tragedy marked ordinary lives.
What They Say: ”A conversation of which we rarely hear both sides: the living talking to the dead, and the dead speaking back” – Sunday Telegraph
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