Greek Lessons, the fifth novel to come into English by the South Korean writer, shares The Vegetarian’s emphasis on bodily fragility, and its intensity of style – but describes a different, softer arc ...

Few literary books this year are as highly anticipated as Greek Lessons, the latest novel by Han Kang to be translated into English. After Kang's Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian and the ...

Greek Lessons, by Han Kang – whose novel, The Vegetarian, won the International Booker in 2016 – is a luminous and aching meditation on the difficulties of language: how it speaks to mortality, ...

Grief, rather than love, is perhaps the engine of human experience. From the time we are born we are losing; whether we are conscious of it or not, we live fundamentally precarious existences, with ...

It is a quirk of fiction in translation that a writer’s novels often appear in English in a different order to their original publication. In Korean, Greek Lessons was the follow-up to The Vegetarian ...