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渴望連結的心，韓江探索語言、失落與人性之美

✰ 英國衛報2023年最期待的新作之一

一個是為治療失語而學習古希臘語的女子
一個是徳韓混血視力逐漸惡化的古希臘文老師
兩人註定為各自失去的那一部分，深深吸引
就算失去語言與觀看的能力，也阻止不了兩顆受傷的心渴望連結的本能……
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母親過世，失去兒子監護權，失語症復發的她，報名了古希臘語課；他以教古希臘語維生，視力退化幾近全盲，授課時深受這名沈默學生吸引⋯國際布克文學獎得主韓江說，或許因為她的創作始於詩，所以總感覺語言有如無法射中靶心的飛箭，難以到位。在《希臘語課》中，與世界脫節的失語女子和失明男子，儘管語言和視覺受到局限，仍逐漸找到彼此間的聯繫。

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.