02127nam a22003137a 4500 20260204104305.0 260204b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780593595442 HSLRC FIC K364gr 2024 Han, Kang, 1970- author. 60283 Hŭirabŏ sigan. English Greek lessons : a novel / Han Kang ; translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Ye Won. First edition. London ; New York : Hogarth, 2023. 172 pages ; 21 cm Originally published in Korean as Huilabeo sigan by Munhakdongne, Paju-si, South Korea in 2011. "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" Nobel Prize in Literature, 2024 Divorced women Fiction. 60284 Language teachers Fiction. 60285 Mute persons Fiction. 60286 People with visual disabilities Fiction. 60287 Psychological fiction. 60288 Smith, Deborah, 1987- translator. 60289 Yae Won, Emily, translator. 60290 lcc BK 98656 98656 0 0 lcc 0 0 FIC HSLRC HSLRC FIC 2026-02-04 582.40 2 FIC K364gr 2024 HS15040 2026-03-26 00:00:00 2026-03-18 2026-02-04 BK