About the Book: Light and Thread
In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and
life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a
sequence of essays, poems, photographs and diaries.
A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny,
north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the
reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the
earth turns on its axis.
In a poem written at eight years old,