A review by heresthepencil
Greek Lessons by Han Kang

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

like the characters themselves, you will move through this novel not being able to distinguish dream from reality. it's about the pain & struggle of loosing connections, both in the literal sense, be it by death, by fighting, by moving away, and in the more abstract sense of not being able to connect. it's visible in the plot lines, in the characters loosing their senses, and finally in the writing itself - it's often disjointed, hazy like the man's eyesight, quiet & unnerving like the woman's voicelessness. and still, the book manages to be beautiful and lyrical, and to underline how there's always some way to connect.

rep: Korean mcs, Indian side character
tw: hospitals, death, mentions of abortion