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Hard cover, 8vo, in white paper covered boards, titles and greek key design to spine in blue foil, in the original unclipped dust jacket, 147pp. Signed on half title in Korean and English. CONDITION: Fine, in a Fine dust jacket, in mylar protector. **A spare, yet most moving prose poetic work of great insight in which culture, time, and language are shown to be at once infinitely fragile, and yet enduringly strong. From the blurb: "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. While for him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages..." Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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$350.00