摘 要 註 | In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greeklanguage teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak buthas lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to thesilent woman, while day by day he is losing his sight.Soon they discover a deeper bond. For her, in the space ofjust a few months, she has lost both her mother and thecustody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it'sthe dislocation of growing up between Korea and Germany,being torn between two cultures and languages. 'GreekLessons' tells the story of two ordinary people broughttogether at a moment of private anguish, their voicesintersecting with startling beauty as they move fromdarkness to light, from silence to expression. It is atender love letter to human connection, and a novel toawaken the senses, vividly conjuring what it means to bealive."-- |