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Human Acts

Han Kang

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Feb 13, 2025 Alina rated it it was amazing

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We often use the word ‘inhuman’ to describe cruelty—barbaric, brutal acts that cause suffering and seem devoid of the ‘human’ qualities of kindness, compassion, or mercy. Yet looking, not only into history, but at the world around us—the frequency and intensity with which humans inflict suffering on one another—it becomes increasingly difficult to believe that ‘human’ inherently means kind, or that cruelty is something outside of humanity, something in-human.

Kang’s sobering literary account of t ...more

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