Aphasic

희랍어시간

Shortlisted for the French Medici Prize, a Nobel Prize nominee, and the first Asian to win the Man Booker International Prize, Han Jiang, after writing "The Vegetarian," sheds blood and tears on her new novel, "The Aphasic." To combat the violence inherent in language, one woman decides to stop speaking. Awakening all senses at once, a global sensory resurgence. A writer exclusively for I-people, a master of unsparing literary slaying. This novel is dedicated to anyone lost in emotional sensibilities, secretly wounded, or with a knife between them and the world. The media loves it. Han Jiang is a keen chronicler of the lives of unusual and defiant women. "The Aphasic" is for readers who see language itself as a source of self-revelation, celebrating the unspoken trust they discover in sharing a language.
—The New York Times
Like a gem, quiet, sharp, angular, and destructive.
—Kirkus Reviews
Han Jiang is one of the most unusual, incisive, and innovative writers publishing today.
—San Francisco Chronicle
Rational and seductive! The reading process was so thrilling that I had to pause every few chapters and then continue as if pulled by a magnet. I was in awe of this book.
—The Boston Globe
Han Jiang's vivid, violent narrative style is enough to awaken readers who are tired of literature.
—The Independent
◆Admired by her peers as a key force in the Korean literary world, Han Kang is very likely to become a key candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature among contemporary Korean writers.
— Nobel Prize winner and leading figure in French literature, Jean-Claude Le Clézio. This is a sinuous and sublime meditation on language, violence, loss, and intimacy. Han Jiang is so unique that in just a few lines he feels like a journey through the human experience.
—Japanese-American critic and novelist Katie Kitamura Hanjiang is what most writers strive to be throughout their lives: a fearless, unemotional narrator of human truths. She is a genius. —American novelist Lisa McInerney. Exquisite binding, a dream collaboration. Young Korean translator Tian Hezi (literal Korean translation). Popular illustrator Lu Mao paints Hanjiang's cover again, following "The Vegetarian" and "Plant Wife." Popular designer Fu Shiyi designs the entire book. The outer cover is hot-stamped in multicolored gold in various languages, and the inner cover is hot-stamped in ginkgo yellow. The human body is sorrow. It is filled with hollows, soft places, and vulnerable areas.
Arms, underarms, chest, thighs. This body was created to hug and be hugged.
Isn't it strange sometimes? Our bodies have eyelids and lips. They can occasionally close from the outside, or they can lock tightly from the inside.
Without any reason or warning, women will become speechless.
The first time was in the winter of her seventeenth year. She felt as if the words her tongue and hands were snarling at her were like white spiderwebs, a profound shame. She could hear and understand every word clearly, but she couldn't open her mouth to utter a single sound. The only thing that made her speechless lips tremble once again was a foreign language—a single word in French.
Six months ago, her mother passed away. A few years earlier, she had divorced. After three lawsuits, she ultimately lost custody of her nine-year-old son. After giving her child away, she suffered from insomnia. The unbearable weight of words sat like cold explosives in the center of her beating heart. She saw a psychologist weekly. The psychologist, who was over fifty years old, diagnosed her with a temporary loss of speech due to the stress of recent life circumstances. But she simply wrote on her desk, "No, it's not that simple..."
The man was 40 years old and his eyesight was destined to gradually weaken. The doctor predicted that he would lose his sight forever in a year.
He left his family behind in Germany and returned to Korea alone over a decade later to teach Greek. Among the students at the academy, she noticed a woman who spoke and smiled not a word. When the silence of a woman gradually losing her language meets the light of a man gradually losing his sight, perhaps everything is allowed to change.

2023-10-01

九州出版社

Motie Iron Gourd

184

9787522518916