A review by emuhly
Human Acts by Han Kang

4.5

absolutely gut wrenching to read but i’m not sorry i did — han kang layered each perspective of these events artfully and with such care. what deborah smith said in her introduction really stuck with me: “her novel, then, is both a personal and political response to these recent developments, and a reminder of the human acts of which we are all capable, the brutal and the tender, the base and the sublime.”