Category : FictionA powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of;International Booker Prize winner
<"Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night..."<
;In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but can''t. Accustomed to her silence, the teacher is sympathetic--day by day he is losing his eyesight. But, beyond their losses, a deeper pain binds them. 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.;For him, it''s the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.
