{"product_id":"greek-lessons-han-kang","title":"Greek Lessons (Han Kang)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vegetarian.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with' Max Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon 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 nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreek Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender love letter to human connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Another stunning gem: quiet, sharply faceted, and devastating' \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Han Kang is a writer like no other. In a few lines, she seems to traverse the entirety of human experience' Katie Kitamura\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHan Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and published her first short story in 1994. She won the Man Booker International Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/i\u003e and was shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2024, Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong other major awards and prizes she is the winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger 2023 for the French edition of \u003ci\u003eWe Do Not Part\u003c\/i\u003e. She taught in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts for eleven years before leaving in 2018 to focus on writing. She is the fifth writer to contribute to the ongoing Future Library project in Oslo, Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\nDeborah Smith has translated books by Han Kang and Bae Suah. She founded Tilted Axis Press in 2015 and is based in north India.\ne. yaewon translates from and into Korean. Most recently, she translated Hwang Jungeun's \u003ci\u003edd's Umbrella\u003c\/i\u003e and Maggie Nelson's \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e and co-translated Han Kang's \u003ci\u003eGreek Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e and Samuel Beckett's \u003ci\u003eSelected Shorter Plays\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 160 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65920877330781,"sku":"K096989424","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9698942400001A.jpg?v=1789405237","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/greek-lessons-han-kang","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}