Greek lessons

A Greek teacher who is losing his sight and a student who is losing her voice. Both discover, however, that there is an even deeper pain uniting them: in a matter of months, she lost her mother and the battle for custody of her son; he, in turn, has gained the fear of losing his autonomy and the discomfort of, having grown up between South Korea and Germany, always being divided between two cultures and two very different languages.

Greek Lessons tells the story of an ordinary man and woman who meet in a moment of private anguish—his perspective of blindness meets her silence. But it is precisely these handicaps that draw them to each other, leading them to find a way out of the darkness into the light, from silence to expression.

With a spiral structure and the sensitivity to which Han Kang has already accustomed us, this novel is like a tender love letter to human intimacy, a text that awakens our senses and reflects on the essence of what it truly means to be alive.