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050 _aFIC
_bK364gr 2024
100 _aHan, Kang,
_d1970-
_eauthor.
_960283
240 _aHŭirabŏ sigan.
_kEnglish
245 _aGreek lessons :
_ba novel /
_cHan Kang ; translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Ye Won.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 _aLondon ; New York :
_bHogarth,
_c2023.
300 _a172 pages ;
_c21 cm
500 _aOriginally published in Korean as Huilabeo sigan by Munhakdongne, Paju-si, South Korea in 2011.
520 _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"
586 _aNobel Prize in Literature, 2024
650 _aDivorced women
_vFiction.
_960284
650 _aLanguage teachers
_vFiction.
_960285
650 _aMute persons
_vFiction.
_960286
650 _aPeople with visual disabilities
_vFiction.
_960287
655 _aPsychological fiction.
_960288
700 _aSmith, Deborah,
_d1987-
_etranslator.
_960289
700 _aYae Won, Emily,
_etranslator.
_960290
942 _2lcc
_cBK
999 _c98656
_d98656