Thus, reading Greek Lessonswas not that different from my experience with her other book The Vegetarian, but whereas back then because it was awarded a Man Booker Prize and so well received by the international reading population I had thought myself unqualified to understand her work, this time around I felt it wasn't just my understanding of the subject but something about her style of writing that indeed made the novel feel off. You have to hand it to the Scottish government: the deletion of WhatsApp messages is good preemptive news management, whether accidental, by default or deliberate. Human Acts takes place during and after the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, during which hundreds, possibly thousands, of students and other civilians protesting the coup d’état that installed the dictator Chun Doo-hwan were killed by the South Korean military.

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A place where Christ hangs on the cross without the slightest trace of suffering, his eyes lifted ingenuously towards heaven, and the angels step lightly through the air as though out for a casual stroll. This process works similarly on the reader, who is affected by the narrative while never quite feeling as though they have a sufficient grasp of it; instead, it appears both elusive and allusive – but never quite conclusive. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. As language “moves lungs and throat and tongue and lips … The tongue grows dry, saliva spatters, the lips crack.

The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice. In "Greek Lessons," we are introduced to a man gradually losing his sight and a woman who suddenly loses her voice. Throughout the book, she is overwhelmed by the forcefulness of words: their capacity to harm or create; the way they possess and tax the fragile body.

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There are also similarities between the female character in Greek Lessons and Kang’s International Booker prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. Idra Novey, writing for The New York Times Book Review, praised Han's character work and the novel's themes but noted that Han's "voice seem[ed] less certain" than in her previous work.Ancient Greek appeals because it is completely unlike her native Korean, and has shades of the dense language that appears in her nightmares: a ‘single word in which all human language was encompassed’, which she images as an ‘ice-cold explosive’. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. When the South Korean author tried, words evaded her; she turned to documentaries, books about science. Kang’s ideas about language and identity are reflected in her chosen style which concretises her characters’ predicaments – the woman is represented in the third person, unable to express herself directly, and the man in the first, as someone caught up in his thoughts and impressions.