Greek Lessons: A Novel
A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from "one of the most unconventional, perceptive and truly innovative writers publishing today" (San Francisco Chronicle), and author of International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian.
*A New York Times Editors Choice*
*One of Time's Best Books of the Year*
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.
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.
Story Locale: Seoul, Korea
