by Han Kang · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419334404
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A moving story about the power of language and the strength of human bonds, from the acclaimed author of 'The Vegetarian'. A silent woman enrolls in ancient Greek classes hoping to regain her ability to speak, but remains silent. Her teacher, whose sight is fading, is curious about her. As the two souls draw closer, their pains intertwine: she is mourning the loss of her mother and custody of her daughter, while he is torn between Germany and South Korea, a stranger in two cultures and two languages. A novel that explores intimacy and human connections, demonstrating that the world transcends words.
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
