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A review by jiibii
Human Acts by Han Kang
5.0
"You fix on her eyes, which have become hollow and shadowed, and think, whereabouts in the body is that bird when the person is still alive?
In that furrowed brow, above the halo-like crown of that head, in some chamber of the heart?"
The Guardian blurbed this as "Universally Heartbreaking". I could try all I want and I would never be able to come up with a better expression to describe this work. The rawness with which it is written, the prose, the story in itself, the way its conveyed... It left me naked. I found myself guilty of being human, of sharing the same race as some of the people in this book. And this is a first.
In that furrowed brow, above the halo-like crown of that head, in some chamber of the heart?"
The Guardian blurbed this as "Universally Heartbreaking". I could try all I want and I would never be able to come up with a better expression to describe this work. The rawness with which it is written, the prose, the story in itself, the way its conveyed... It left me naked. I found myself guilty of being human, of sharing the same race as some of the people in this book. And this is a first.