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Book review: Han Kang’s hypnotic Greek Lessons probes the limits of language
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In the Greek Lessons, Han Kang looks instead at the limits of language, the medium by which people understand themselves.
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By Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won
Fiction/Hamish Hamilton/Hardcover/148 pages/$32.26/Books Kinokuniya
4 out of 5
A woman, overwhelmed by language, finds herself unable to speak. Her only solace is in learning ancient Greek, a dead language which in its complexity and unfamiliarity may help her break her silence.
