01997nam a22002777a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000100007605000210008610000310010724000320013824500910017025000190026126400420028030000240032250001000034652010030044658600360144965000290148565000320151465000270154665000460157365500270161970000400164670000330168620260204104305.0260204b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780593595442  cHSLRC  aFICbK364gr 2024  aHan, Kang,d1970-eauthor.  aHŭirabŏ sigan.kEnglish  aGreek lessons : ba novel / cHan Kang ; translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Ye Won.  aFirst edition.  aLondon ; New York :bHogarth, c2023.  a172 pages ; c21 cm  aOriginally published in Korean as Huilabeo sigan by Munhakdongne, Paju-si, South Korea in 2011.  a"In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence. Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish-the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to each other. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity-their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath and expression"  aNobel Prize in Literature, 2024  aDivorced womenvFiction.  aLanguage teachersvFiction.  aMute personsvFiction.  aPeople with visual disabilitiesvFiction.  aPsychological fiction.  aSmith, Deborah,d1987-etranslator.  aYae Won, Emily,etranslator.