Новинки Хан Ган

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 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.
Greek Lessons 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.

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian

"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 they 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 one another. 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.

2016년 인터내셔널 부커상을 수상하며 한국문학의 입지를 한단계 확장시킨 한강의 장편소설 『채식주의자』를 15년 만에 새로운 장정으로 선보인다. 상처받은 영혼의 고통과 식물적 상상력의 강렬한 결합을 정교한 구성과 흡인력 있는 문체로 보여주는 이 작품은 섬뜩한 아름다움의 미학을 한강만의 방식으로 완성한 역작이다. “탄탄하고 정교하며 충격적인 작품으로, 독자들의 마음에 그리고 아마도 그들의 꿈에 오래도록 머물 것이다”라는 평을 받으며 인터내셔널 부커상을 수상했던 『채식주의자』는 “미국 문학계에 파문을 일으키면서도 독자들과 공명할 것으로 보인다”(뉴욕타임스), “놀라울 정도로 아름다운 산문과 믿을 수 없을 만큼 폭력적인 내용의 조합이 충격적이다”(가디언)라는 해외서평을 받았고 2018년에는 스페인에서 산클레멘테 문학상을 받는 등 전세계에서 뜨거운 반응을 일으켰다. 국내에서는 현재까지 100만부 가까이 판매되었다.

『채식주의자』는 어느 날부터 육식을 거부하며 가족들과 갈등을 빚기 시작하는 ‘영혜’가 중심인물로 등장하는 장편소설이다. 하지만 소설은 영혜를 둘러싼 세 인물인 남편, 형부, 언니의 시선에서 서술되며 영혜는 단 한번도 주도적인 화자의 위치를 얻지 못한다. 가족의 이름으로 자행되는 가부장의 폭력, 그리고 그 폭력에 저항하며 금식을 통해 동물성을 벗어던지고 나무가 되고자 한 영혜가 보여주는 식물적 상상력의 경지는 모든 세대 독자를 아우르며 더 크나큰 공명을 이루어낼 것이다.

В разгар студенческих волнений в Кванджу жестоко убит мальчик по имени Тонхо. Воспоминания об этом трагическом эпизоде красной нитью проходят сквозь череду взаимосвязанных глав, где жертвы и их родственники сталкиваются с подавлением, отрицанием и отголосками той резни. Лучший друг Тонхо, разделивший его участь; редактор, борющийся с цензурой; заключенный и работник фабрики, каждый из которых страдает от травматических воспоминаний; убитая горем мать Тонхо. Их голосами, полными скорби и надежды, рассказывается история о человечности в жестокие времена. Удостоенный множества наград и вызывающий споры бестселлер «Человеческие поступки»…

From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white

While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. THE WHITE BOOK becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes.

As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. THE WHITE BOOK--ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister--offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.

Eines Tages verschwindet der Bildhauer Jang Unhyong beinahe spurlos. Er hinterlässt seine faszinierenden Gipsabdrücke von Händen und Körpern – und ein bewegendes Tagebuch, das seine lebenslange Suche nach Nähe und Wahrhaftigkeit in aller Welt voller Masken schildert.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and…

Роман «Вегетарианка» южнокорейской писательницы Хан Ган -обладатель «Международной Букеровской премии», признан одной из лучших книг 2016 года по версии журналов Time, The Economist, The New York Times, Elle, Wall Street Journal. Это волнующий роман о власти, предательстве, жестокости, красоте, творчестве и обретении свободы. Прекрасная и тревожная аудиокнига о бунте и табу, насилии и чувственности, а главное – о болезненных метаморфозах души. Ёнхе и ее муж вели самую обычную, размеренную жизнь, пока она не начала видеть кошмары. Сновидения – навязчивые образы крови и жестокости – мучают Ёнхе. Чтобы очистить сознание, она полностью…

The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.

Кроткой и полностью подчиненной своему мужу Ёнхе снятся жестокие, кровавые и тревожные сны, так или иначе связанные с сырым мясом. Она принимает решение стать вегетарианкой, и это приводит в бешенство и мужа, и отца девушки, запуская цепь необратимых событий, имеющих далеко идущие последствия, которые никто из героев не мог даже предположить. В то же время мужа сестры Ёнхе преследует видение – любовная сцена между мужчиной и женщиной, чьи тела сплошь разрисованы цветами. Вскоре он понимает, что в образе мужчины видит себя, а в образе этой женщины может представить только Ёнхе. В романе три части и три рассказчика: муж Ёнхе, муж ее сестры и…

Одного ранку Джінг-хай прокинулася з усвідомленням, що вона більше ніколи не їстиме м’яса. На цьому й завершується звичний для читача класичний сюжет. Жанр роману південно-корейської письменниці Хан Канг балансує між домашнім трилером, притчею про трансформацію і деревофільною медитацією, а оповідь ведеться від імені нікчемного чоловіка героїні, який працює в офісі, одержимого свояка-художника і заклопотаної старшої сестри. Ці герої працюють, відчувають муки творчості, облаштовують власне життя, а от сама Джінг-хай припиняє робити будь-що взагалі.

Ein seltsam verstörendes, hypnotisierendes Buch über eine Frau, die laut ihrem Ehemann an Durchschnittlichkeit kaum zu übertreffen ist – bis sie eines Tages beschließt, kein Fleisch mehr zu essen. »Bevor meine Frau zur Vegetarierin wurde, hielt ich sie für nichts Besonderes. Bei unserer ersten Begegnung fand ich sie nicht einmal attraktiv. Mittelgroß, ein Topfschnitt, irgendwo zwischen kurz und lang, gelbliche unreine Haut, Schlupflider und dominante Wangenknochen. So fühlte ich mich weder von ihr angezogen noch abgestoßen und sah daher keinen Grund, sie nicht zu heiraten.« Yeong-Hye und ihr Ehemann sind ganz gewöhnliche Leute. Er…

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.

A beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her.…

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties…

Wegetarianka to polifoniczna opowieść, która zaintryguje nie tylko zwolenników ekofeminizmu, lecz także osoby lubiące zgłębiać topografię ludzkiej psyche. Han Kang z chirurgiczną precyzją przetwarza żywą tkankę egzystencji i prowadzi czytelnika różnymi ścieżkami narracji, aby zmusić go do zadania sobie kilku pytań: Na czym polega moje istnienie? Czy potrafię być tylko człowiekiem? Czy umiem wyrzec się człowieczeństwa i stać się na przykład drzewem? Jest to refleksja nad metodami sublimacji ludzkiej żądzy, możliwością transcendencji i zasadnością samodestrukcji w desperackiej próbie wyzwolenia. Refleksja nad sferą ludzkiej wolności.

ASIA Publishers present some of the very best modern Korean literature to readers worldwide through its new Korean literature series . We are proud and happy to offer it in the most authoritative translation by renowned translators of Korea literature. We hope that this series helps to build solid bridges between citizens of the world and Koreans through rich in-depth understanding of Korea. You are lying on the wet soil, muttering "such a trifle." You can't feel the wound in the gray white holes any more. Your right eye hurts because dirt got into it. Blinking several times, you think all these perceptions of pain are too weak. You mutter a prayer over and over again to no specific god that you may not recover from whatever you're suffering now, that the cold soil may become even colder so that your face and body are frozen hard, and that you never get up again.

"Bevor meine Frau zur Vegetarierin wurde, hielt ich sie für nichts Besonderes. Bei unserer ersten Begegnung fand ich sie nicht einmal attraktiv. Mittelgroß, ein Topfschnitt, irgendwo zwischen kurz und lang, gelbliche unreine Haut, Schlupflider und dominante Wangenknochen. So fühlte ich mich weder von ihr angezogen noch abgestoßen und sah daher keinen Grund, sie nicht zu heiraten." Yeong-Hye und ihr Ehemann sind ganz gewöhnliche Leute. Er geht beflissen seinem Bürojob nach und hegt keinerlei Ambitionen. Sie ist eine zwar leidenschaftslose, aber pflichtbewusste Hausfrau. Die angenehme Eintönigkeit ihrer Ehe wird jäh gefährdet, als Yeong-Hye…

La vegetariana relata la historia de una mujer corriente, Yeonghye, que por la simple decisión de no volver a comer carne convierte una vida normal en una perturbadora pesadilla. Narrada a tres voces, La vegetariana cuenta el desprendimiento progresivo de la condición humana de una mujer que ha decidido dejar de ser aquello que le obligan a ser. El lector, como un pariente más, asiste atónito a ese acto subversivo que fracturará la vida familiar de la protagonista y transformará todas sus relaciones cotidianas en un vórtice de violencia, vergüenza y deseo.

"Ein gro?er Roman ?ber die Einsamkeit der menschlichen Existenz. Eines Tages verschwindet der Bildhauer Jang Unhyong beinahe spurlos. Er hinterl?sst seine faszinierenden Gipsabdr?cke von H?nden und K?rpern – und ein bewegendes Tagebuch, das seine lebenslange Suche nach N?he und Wahrhaftigkeit in aller Welt voller Masken schildert. "Han Kang erz?hlt zugleich mit gro?er Brutalit?t und gro?er Poesie – eine Mischung, die nur wenigen Schriftstellern gelingt." Stern. "Man kann sich dieser Stimme nicht entziehen." Independent. Von der Autorin des internationalen Bestsellers «Die Vegetarierin»."