Greek Lessons ~ UK SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
by Kang, Han
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 9780241604
- ISBN 13
- 9789780241605
- Seller
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About This Item
FIRST EDITION, first printing. Hardcover. Brand new, never read. Personally signed by the author directly to a specially bound title page also dated in the month and year of publication. Dust jacket is hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for years of worry free reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.
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
"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
"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.
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- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 623
- Title
- Greek Lessons ~ UK SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Kang, Han
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 9780241604
- ISBN 13
- 9789780241605
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- Signed, collectible, autographed, novel
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