Greek Lessons

Resumen del libro

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The VegetarianIn 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 they 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.

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 one another. 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 expression.

Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Han Kang x{0026}lt;/B (Gwangju, Corea del Sur, 1970), galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024, empezó su carrera como novelista al ganar el concurso literario de primavera del diario Seúl Shinmun en 1994. Es autora de las novelasx{0026}lt;I La vegetarianax{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Booker Internacional 2016), x{0026}lt;I La clase de griegox{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2023), x{0026}lt;I Actos humanos x{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Manhae de Literatura de Corea y Premio Malaparte en Italia en 2017), x{0026}lt;I Blanco x{0026}lt;/I (finalista del Premio Booker Internacional 2018) e x{0026}lt;I Imposible decir adiósx{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Médicis Étranger 2023), así como del poemario x{0026}lt;I Guardé el anochecer en el cajónx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2025). La autora ha recibido también el Premio Yi Sang, el Premio Artista Joven del Año, el 25. Premio de Novela Coreana, el Premio de Literatura Hwang Sun-Won y el Premio de Literatura Dong Ri. Ha trabajado como profesora en el departamento de Escritura Creativa del Instituto de las Artes de Seúl hasta 2018 y en la actualidad se dedica por completo a la escritura. Su obra ha sido publicada en más de treinta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P