Human Acts by Han Kang; Martin John by Anakana Schofield; What’s Yours is Mine by Tom Slee; Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril by Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants; Muted Modernists by Madawi Al-Rasheed.
by Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books, ISBN 978 1 84627 596
The horror of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China – complete with iconic image of the stand-off between a protester and a line of tanks – is familiar to us all. The same cannot be said of the May 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea. Yet the political and social repercussions of that student-led protest continue to be felt today and, as Han Kang’s novel reveals, the wounds are still raw.
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