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Levande och döda
by Han Kang
🏰Historical fiction~224 pages
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Kwangju, South Korea, 1980. After soldiers crush a student uprising, a boy searches a makeshift morgue for his missing friend. Han Kang then hands the story to a chain of narrators — a survivor, a censored editor, a prisoner, a grieving mother — each carrying a different fragment of the same atrocity across decades. The prose is spare, luminous and almost unbearably precise, turning historical massacre into an intimate study of what remains when a body and a country are broken. Quiet, morally searching and devastating, it shows how private tenderness outlives official forgetting.
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