Description
The first edition of Greek Lessons, signed by Han Kang.
Octavo, [4], 147pp, White hardcover, title stamped in blue on the spine. The first English edition, with “001” number line on the copyright page. Top edge dyed blue. Text in Korean along the fore-edge. Appears unread. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, £16.99 on the front flap, publisher’s “signed copy” sticker on the front panel.
This copy is signed by the author on the title page in Korean.
Han Kang (b. 1970) is a South Korean novelist and the 2024 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her international breakthrough came with The Vegetarian, which won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize in English translation.
