The New York Times

Book Review: ‘Greek Lessons,’ by Han Kang

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Why ‘The Vegetarian’ author Han Kang’s newly translated novel is her gutsiest yet

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 ...
NPR

'Greek Lessons' is an intimate, vulnerable portrayal of two lonely people

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 ...
The Washington Post

Two intersecting lives, each grappling with a unique loss

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, ...
The Economist

Han Kang’s new novel, “Greek Lessons”, is a reflection on loss

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” ...
The Atlantic

A Novel in Which Language Hits Its Limit—And Keeps On Going

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 ...
The Boston Globe

Teacher and student, both grieving, forge a bond across limitations of sight and speech in Han Kang’s ‘Greek Lessons’

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 ...
Time

Greek Lessons

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. Han Kang, winner of the ...
Korea

Book talk about Han Kang's 'Greek Lessons'

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 ...
Asia Society

Book Salon: Greek Lessons

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 ...