Han Kang Greek Lessons recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster en winnares van de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur 2024. Op deze pagina lees je informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse vertaling van de Koreaanse roman 희랍어 시간 uit 2011 van schrijfster Han Kang.
Han Kang Greek Lessons recensie, review en informatie
- “By turns love letter to and critique of language itself, Greek Lessons is a brief yet, in its concision and finesse, lapidary work . . . one of Han’s most intimate works.” (The Financial Times)
- “This novel is a celebration of the ineffable trust to be found in sharing language . . . [Han] is an astute chronicler of unusual, insubordinate women.” (New York Times)
- “In Greek Lessons Kang reaches beyond the usual senses to translate the unspeakable . . . Han Kang turns the well-worn idea of the mind-body disconnect into something fresh and substantia.” (Los Angeles Times)
Greek Lessons
- Auteur: Han Kang (Zuid-Korea)
- Soort boek: Zuid-Koreaanse roman
- Origineel: 희랍어 시간 (2011)
- Engelse vertaling: Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Omvang: 160 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman uit 2011 van Han Kang
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.
Han Kang winnaar Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur 2024
Op donderdag 10 oktober 2024 is rond 13.00 bekendgemaakt dat de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Han Kang de Nobelprijs voor de literatuur van 2024 wint…lees verder >