The Translated Book Club: Human Acts by Han Kang
Schedule
Tue Feb 10 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
108 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002 | Amherst, MA
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The Translated Book Club promotes the reading of literature translated into English and recognizes and supports translators and their publishers. Each meeting is hosted at UMass Downtown by a UMass Amherst faculty member or graduate student and designed for readers of diverse backgrounds with no specific language requirement other than English.Sponsored by the Gentzler Translation Center, the club is free and open to community members from high school students to retirees, with a maximum of 15 readers per meeting.
Advanced sign-up is required at https://www.umass.edu/downtown/news-events. The first eight readers to sign up for each meeting receive a free copy of the translated book.
February 10, 2026
Human Acts (Hogarth Books, 2017)
by Han Kang
Translated by Deborah Smith
Korean > English
Hosted by Toki Lee, English Department
See other discussion dates and book titles at umass.edu/downtown.
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