Name: [Korean Literature Club] 'Greek Lessons: A Novel' by Han Kang (Tran by Debora Smith & Yaewon E.)
Start: 2025-02-13T19:30:00+09:00
End: 2025-02-13T21:00:00+09:00
Location: 노스테라스 카페

[Korean Literature Club] 'Greek Lessons: A Novel' by Han Kang (Tran by Debora Smith & Yaewon E.)

Dear Friends,
For the February meeting of 2025, we will read and discuss ‘Greek Lessons: A Novel' authored by Han Kang and translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won.
The meeting will be led by Jeremy Seligson and held IN-PERSON only.

WHEN_ Thursday. Feruary 13, 2025. 7:30PM (Seoul)

WHERE_B1, North Terrace Cafe (near Anguk Station or Jongno-3 ga Station (Subway Line 1, 3, or 5))

LEADER_Jeremy Seligson

READ_ ‘Greek Lessons: A Novel’ (authored by Han Kang and translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won)

BOOK PURCHASE:
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Lessons-Novel-Han-Kang/dp/0593595440/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= |
Kyobo https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000214511983

FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian
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.
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 expression.
Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS:
Deborah Smith was a co-winner of the International Booker Prize for her translation of The Vegetarian.
Emily Yae Won is a translator based in Seoul. She has translated into Korean the work of Ali Smith and Deborah Levy.

VENUE:
The ‘North Terrace Cafe (Basement)’ is located at 12 Yulgok-ro 10-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul. Go to Anguk Station on the Orange #3 Line. Go out Exit 4 and do an immediate U-turn on the sidewalk. Then take a right in front of the Japanese Cultural Center and walk towards Changdeok-gung, but on the opposite side of the main street (Yulgok-ro) from the palace.