Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker TIME magazine KirkusA powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection from the Nobel Prizewinning author of The VegetarianBreathtaking She is simply my favourite living writer to read and think with and see the world with Max PorterIn 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 sightSoon they discover a deeper pain binds them For her in the space of just a few months she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nineyearold son For him its the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany being torn between two cultures and languagesGreek Lessons is a tender love letter to human connection a novel to awaken the senses vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be aliveTranslated by Deborah Smith and e yaewonShortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024Another stunning gem quiet sharply faceted and devastating KirkusHan Kang is a writer like no other In a few lines she seems to traverse the entirety of human experience Katie Kitamura
