Teacher and student, both grieving, forge a bond across limitations of sight and speech in Han Kang’s ‘Greek Lessons’

Grief, rather than love, is perhaps the engine of human experience. From the time we are born we are losing; whether we are conscious of it or not, we live fundamentally precarious existences, with our bodies, relationships, and the material of our lives perpetually changing and losing shape.Grief — and its attendant isolation — is the central emotion of Korean author Han Kang’s “Greek Lessons.” There are two primary characters: a mute... + full article