Human Acts
The best book I read this year. The perfect year to read it.
The best book I read in 2024, one of the most brilliant I have ever read, was not published in 2024. But there was probably no more appropriate a year to read Han Kang’s 2016 novel Human Acts, which was written about the events and aftermath of the Gwanju Massacre of 1980, when the South Korean dictatorshi…