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The novel centers on the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, a pro-democracy movement in South Korea brutally suppressed by the military government. Rather than a linear narrative, Han Kang structures the book through six interconnected vignettes, each from a different character's perspective—victims, a survivor, a grieving mother, a witness, a soul-searching writer, and even a ghost.
