“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 language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. 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, and the fear of losing his independence.

Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish—the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to each other. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity—their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath and expression.

Greek Lessons is the story of the unlikely bond between this pair and a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection—a novel to awaken the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be alive.

为了逃避来自丈夫、家庭、社会和人群的暴力，她决定变成一棵树

在英惠的丈夫郑先生的眼中，“病”前的英惠，是个再普通不过的女子：不高不矮的个头、不长不短的头发，相貌平平，着装一般，温顺、平淡、文静。正如他所希望的那样，英惠完美地扮演了平凡妻子的角色——料理家务，伺候丈夫，就像千千万万的传统妇女一样。

然而，一场噩梦之后，妻子却突然开始拒绝吃肉，拒绝为家人准备荤菜，甚至到最后，她开始拒绝自己的“人类”身份，把自己当成了一株植物，一株只需要阳光和水，谢绝任何食物和交流的植物。而随着她被动的反叛以越来越极端和可怕的形式表现出来，丑闻、虐待和疏远开始让她螺旋进入她的幻想空间。在精神和身体的完全蜕变中，她现在危险的努力将使英惠——不可能的、狂喜的、悲剧性的——远离她曾经为人所知的自我。

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian.

"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 language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. 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, and the fear of losing his independence.

Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish—the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity—their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath and expression.

Greek Lessons is the story of the unlikely bond between this pair and a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection—a novel to awaken the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be alive.

管他世界的壓迫與否定，她找到了唯一的出路：成為一株植物。
「我的身體需要澆水。」她的身上冒出枝葉，手上長出樹根……
唯有融入土壤，她才能萌芽重生。
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榮獲國際曼布克獎x韓江
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我再也沒辦法忍受肉的味道。
只有植物能讓我平靜，讓我渴望。
就這樣倒立著，變成一棵樹吧……

在開始不斷做著充滿殺戮和鮮血的噩夢之前，英惠只是個生活平凡至極的家庭主婦，無數失眠的夜晚和夢中恐怖的景象令她飽受折磨，有一天，她突然無法再吃肉、無法忍受肉的味道，成為了一名「素食者」，這個小小的舉動不但讓她的婚姻陷入危機，並且成為一連串失控之舉的開端。
英惠的姐夫是個藝術攝影師，正陷入創作的低潮。他從妻子那裡聽說小姨子英惠的臀部至今還留著胎記，突然產生了久違的靈感，身上彩繪著花朵的全裸男女交合的場景，從此鐫刻在他腦海裡。他想要在英惠的裸體上作畫，並拍攝成影片。英惠成為姐夫的模特兒之後，身上的花朵彩繪竟然讓她不再受到夢魘困擾，也重新燃起她的肉體慾望……
因為小時候一同活在被性情暴躁的父親家暴的陰影下，仁惠把照顧妹妹英惠當成這輩子的責任。然而，她內心其實痛恨著住在精神病院逐漸走向瘋狂世界、把一切丟給她的妹妹。看似開朗穩重的仁惠，也曾有過對生活萌生倦怠和絕望，拋下稚子尋死的舉動。痛苦而壓抑的她，是否能帶著掙扎在噩夢邊緣的英惠，踏上自我救贖新的旅程？
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《素食者》由三個章節構成，每章分別以不同的視角刻畫行為日趨極端的素食者英惠。在她斷絕食物的過程中，融合了關於暴力、美、欲望、罪和救贖的疑問。書中出現多種意象：絢麗的盛開花朵、直挺的陰鬱樹木、花瓣大小的藍綠色胎記、血淋淋的垂死動物與飛翔之鳥，有性的符號，卻非刻意強調煽情。作者行文如詩，捕捉瞬間掠過的情感來勾勒角色無奈又痛苦的命運，有如一則黑暗預言。

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.
A disturbing, yet beautifully composed narrative told in three parts, The Vegetarian is an allegorical novel about modern day South Korea, but also a story of obsession, choice, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian .

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend, who meets his own fateful end, to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, both suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother, their collective heartbreak and acts of hope tell the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of a historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.

One winter morning in Seoul, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at the hospital. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet—a white bird called Ama.

A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon’s house at all costs, but the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal—or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into darkness that awaits her at her friend’s house.

Blurring the boundaries between dream and reality, We Do Not Part powerfully brings to light the lost voices of the past to save them from oblivion. Both a hymn to an enduring friendship and an argument for remembering, it is the story of profound love in the face of unspeakable pain—and a celebration of life, however fragile it might be.

While on a writer’s residency, a nameless narrator focuses on the color white to creatively channel her inner pain. Through lyrical, interconnected stories, she grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, attempting to make sense of her older sister’s death using the color white. From trying to imagine her mother’s first time producing breast milk to watching the snow fall and meditating on the impermanence of life, she weaves a poignant, heartfelt story of the omnipresence of grief and the ways we perceive the world around us.

In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book offers a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and of our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.

Une nuit, elle se réveille et va au réfrigérateur, qu'elle vide de tous ce qu'il contenait de viande. Guidée par son rêve, Yonghye a désormais un but, devenir végétale, se perdre dans l'existence lente et inaccessible des arbres et des plantes. Ce dépouillement qui devient le sens de sa vie, le pouvoir érotique, floral, de sa nudité, vont faire voler en éclat les règles de la société, dans une lente descente vers la folie et l'absolu.

Romance assombroso e visionário de Han Kang, Prêmio Nobel de Literatura 2024, Sem despedidas nos conduz ― com a mesma qualidade de seus livros anteriores, como A vegetariana e Atos humanos ― a uma jornada emocionante à Coreia do Sul contemporânea e sua dolorosa história.

Mesclando imaginação e realidade, corpo e memória, amizade e trauma, a narrativa tem como ponto de partida uma viagem de última hora. Kyung-ha, uma escritora, sai de Seul para a ilha de Jeju ― onde dezenas de milhares de cidadãos foram aniquilados entre 1948 e 1949 ―, até a casa de sua velha amiga Inseon, uma fotógrafa e cineasta experimental que largou a vida na cidade grande para se dedicar à marcenaria e à mãe debilitada. Hospitalizada após um grave acidente em sua oficina, Inseon implora a Kyung-ha que se desloque até Jeju para alimentar seu amado pássaro de estimação, deixado às pressas e sem assistência.

Kyung-ha pega o primeiro avião para Jeju, mas uma nevasca atinge a ilha quando ela desembarca, mergulhando-a em um mundo branco e opaco. Acossada por rajadas de neve e ventos gelados e cortantes, ela se pergunta se conseguirá chegar a tempo de salvar o animal ― ou se até mesmo será capaz de sobreviver ao frio brutal que a envolve a cada passo. Quando a noite cai, ela luta para chegar à casa de Inseon, ainda sem saber da verdadeira descida à escuridão que a espera.

Ali, a história há muito enterrada da família de Inseon vem à tona, entre sonhos e memórias transmitidos de mãe para filha, e em um arquivo meticulosamente reunido que documenta o terrível massacre na ilha, ocorrido às vésperas da Guerra da Coreia, setenta anos antes. Nestas páginas de beleza extraordinária, Han Kang compõe um poderoso manifesto contra o esquecimento. E transforma um episódio de violência em uma celebração da vida, por mais frágil que seja.