One of my favorite works from Han Kang so far. As always, her writing is so clear and crisp, packed full of details and images that one needs to reread to get the full extent of throughout. In terms of subject and topic for this novel, the incorporation of a multicultural background for characters, as well as the learning of Ancient Greek, adds an interesting layer that's compelling, but not too much. It's a short novel, but a quick read; I recommend anyone interested pick it up at least once.

Han Kang is truly one of a kind. Her books are stories as well as performances, a dance with the language itself. I've loved her previous works, and this one is no different. The translation was great, too.

The first novel I read by Han Kang — International Booker winner The Vegetarian — was pretty much my idea of perfection: weird and affecting, equally engaging my heart and mind, it drew me in and taught me something of what it is to be a woman in modern-day South Korea. But Kang is no one-trick pony, no two of her books are quite alike, and while each of the novels I have read by her since has been undeniably well-written, none of them has quite sparked that original magic for me again. Greek Lessons is something new yet again — poetic and philosophical, it twines the stories of a woman who has unexpectedly lost the ability to speak with that of a man who is slowly losing his sight — and for the most part, I found the plot kind of predictable and bland; the two voices confusing in their interchangeability. I’m not disappointed to have read this — Kang’s sentences are engagingly delightful, her intent deeply philosophical — and although I’m rounding down to three stars as a rating against her earlier work (according toi my own reading tastes), I am looking forward to reading whatever Kang comes out with next.