NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A dazzling novel about the saving
grace of language and human connection, from the "visionary" (New
York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner
The Vegetarian
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"Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and a return to the
sensorium of touch and intimacy, Greek Lessons soars with sensuous and
revelatory insight."--Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings**
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: *The Guardian, The New
Statesman, The Irish Times, i-D Magazine, Lit Hub
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"Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a
skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night."
In 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 the two 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, and the fear of losing his independence.
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 each other. 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
breath and expression.
Greek Lessons is the story of the unlikely bond between this pair and
a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection--a novel to awaken
the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be
alive.
