Book of the Week: GREEK LESSONS by Han Kang

Greek Lessons by Han Kang (translated from Korean by Emily Yae Won and Deborah Smith)

In Han Kang’s much-anticipated new novel, two characters experiencing loss find profound connection through language. In a class in Ancient Greek, a woman who has lost the ability to speak due to losses in her personal life and the tutor who is in the last stages of losing his eyesight find in each other and in the subtleties of the languages in which they are immersed, a new awareness and clarity that will help them overcome their feelings of displacement and alienation. Through language they become accessible to each other — and accessible to us. This slim volume of Han Kang’s crystalline prose is presented as a beautiful hardback.
>>How language misses the mark.
>>Losing language.
>>Solace in language.
>>An intimate connection.
>>I couldn’t bear fiction.
>>Your copy.