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[Title]
Greek Lessons - 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner, Han Kang's Korean Novel
[Detail]
194 pages
145*210mm
252g
ISBN : 9788954616515
[Information]
"The Silence of the Woman and the Light of the Man"
The woman is speechless. She lost her child and her mother, so it is natural for her to lose her words. The woman says to the counselor. It cannot be that simple. The woman has lost her words long ago. What woke her up was an unfamiliar foreign language. This time, the woman chooses Greek, a language that has already faded and become a dead language. And the man is losing his light. He leaves his family in Germany and returns to Korea alone to teach Greek. At the moment when the silence of a woman losing her words and the light of a man losing his eyes meet, static meanings that cannot be expressed in words swarm between the lines.
A full-length novel by Han Kang, the author of 'The Vegetarian', 'The Fruit of My Woman', and 'The Wind Blows, Go Away'. Poetic sentences and compressed language beautifully depict the silence of the woman and the light of the man. Like Greek, which cannot utter a single word without deciding on the subject and voice, the novel is hesitant and cautious. With their sensitive gestures and restrained language, they learn dead words that no one knows, and they grope and brush past each other. A truly beautiful novel, the longer you read, the more its meaning shines.
