Greek Lessons
Хан Ган
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.
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"If this makes Greek Lessons sound a little like a morality tale, it is more accurately pictured – as references to Plato and Socrates suggest – as a philosophical examination of selfhood and contingency. It considers the problem of what is gained when something is lost ... Han has assembled a striking montage of the ways in which our connection with what lies within and beyond us is fragile but, if we choose it to be, no less precious for that."
MICHELE FILGATE,THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Her alienated perspective can be relentless at times, like a recurring nightmare in which you keep walking down the same narrow hallways, retracing your steps and making no progress ... Concerned with how people can communicate when options are taken away from them, and how vulnerability can open the door ... Kang's latest isn't a page-turner, and reading it can feel like being suspended in time, or sitting through a very long class, despite the book's slimness. But that's the effect of writing into discomfort ... Kang reaches beyond the usual senses to translate the unspeakable."
Форма: роман
Оригинальное название: 희랍어 시간 [Hirabeo sigan]
Дата написания: 2011
Первая публикация: 18.04.2023
Перевод: Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won
Язык: Английский (в оригинале Корейский)
Жанры: Современная проза, Современная зарубежная литература
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