“I didn’t take any photographs. The sights were recorded only in my eyes. The sounds, smells and tactile sensations that a camera cannot capture in any case were impressed on my ears, nose, face and ...

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, ...

Han Kang, winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian, is known for her ability to lay bare the lives of complicated women. Her latest novel, Greek Lessons, first released in ...

How strange it is to be human. Plenty of authors have written about this peculiarity (some better than others), but Han Kang turns the well-worn idea of the mind-body disconnect into something fresh ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the unnamed protagonist of Han Kang’s latest novel, Greek Lessons, suddenly and mysteriously loses the ...

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 ...

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 ...