by Han Kang · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789877693232
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«La clase de griego» is the novel by Han Kang, published by Random House in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
In Seoul, a woman who has lost her speech, her mother, and custody of her son attends ancient Greek classes hoping to recover her voice through a dead language. Her teacher, divided between two cultures, faces progressive blindness. Their voices cross in desperation: can the other give them back their words and light?
Han Kang, also author of The Vegetarian, is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This Spanish edition was published in 2023.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction seeking an intimate story about loss, language, and human connection.
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".
