In “Greek Lessons,” Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English, a young Korean mother is suddenly unable to speak. By Idra Novey When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

How strange it is to be human. Plenty of authors have written about this peculiarity (some better than others), but Han Kang turns the well-worn idea of the mind-body disconnect into something fresh ...

Few literary books this year are as highly anticipated as Greek Lessons, the latest novel by Han Kang to be translated into English. After Kang's Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian and the ...

In high school, I was particularly fond of a serious and attentive Latin teacher who never seemed disturbed by my reluctance to speak during class. Once, on the first day back to school after a break, ...

What does it mean to speak without the hope of a response? To address someone who cannot or will not hear you, who cannot or will not reply? The first three full-length novels by the South Korean ...

Greek Lessons. By Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Hogarth; 192 pages; $26. Hamish Hamilton; £16.99 Han Kang was already a literary star in South Korea when “The Vegetarian” ...

Grief, rather than love, is perhaps the engine of human experience. From the time we are born we are losing; whether we are conscious of it or not, we live fundamentally precarious existences, with ...

This week’s story, “The Middle Voice,” is drawn from your novel “Greek Lessons,” in which a woman mysteriously loses the faculty of speech, and signs up for ancient-Greek lessons as a possible remedy.

The books of Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2024, have been published by Jelenkor Publishing House in Hungary since 2017. The latest novel in Hungarian by the author of ‘The ...

For this Book Salon, we will read the breathtaking Korean book Greek Lessons by internationally renowned writer Han Kang. About the book (publisher's description): In a classroom in Seoul, a young ...