![]() In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. The power of words so overwhelmed her that she lost the ability to utter them: “The most agonising thing was how horrifyingly distinct the words sounded when she opened her mouth and pushed them out one by one.” On that occasion, learning French brought speech back to her this time round she hopes Ancient Greek might work. Deborah Smith s translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang, The Vegetarian and Human Acts, and two by Bae Suah, A Greater Music and Recitation. This is not an isolated occurrence it happened to her once before, when she was a teenager. In high school, I was particularly fond of a serious and attentive Latin teacher who never seemed disturbed by my. Under these twin stresses, she has become mute. Dark dreams, simmering tensions, chilling violence this South Korean novel is a feast. His student lost her mother six months ago, and recently lost custody of her eight-year-old boy. The Vegetarian by Han Kang review an extraordinary story of family fallout. The teacher is going blind, with a year or so of partial vision left. ![]() It is set, for the most part, in a classroom in Seoul, South Korea, where an unnamed student and her unnamed Ancient Greek teacher are suffering from serious disabilities. This idiosyncratic novel is very different, but similar in its focus on human frailty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, which related a woman’s descent into mental illness when she renounces meat and pits herself against the patriarchal rigidities of South Korean culture. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Together, they must unlock her lost memories to discover what happened to the Sagittarius’s crew before tragedy strikes again. Meanwhile, Cal Morganson, responsible for an upcoming follow-up mission, investigates Catherine, convinced she’s hiding something. Her personal life and career spiral out of control. As Catherine Wells struggles to reconnect with her family after nine years away, she’s haunted by missing memories regarding the mission, occasional blackout episodes, and terrifying violent urges. In this tense, character-driven debut, an astronaut’s miraculous return to Earth after an interstellar mission gone awry sparks questions about the disastrous events that left her the voyage’s only survivor. ![]() |