Light and Thread

Resumen del libro

What is love?It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. 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, Han Kang imagined a gold thread' of connection an idea which she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Lecture. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language into the depths of other hearts, and her profound sense of an electric current which joins writer and reader. Both intimate and illuminating, Light and Th

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Han Kang x{0026}lt;/B (Gwangju, Corea del Sur, 1970), galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024, empezó su carrera como novelista al ganar el concurso literario de primavera del diario Seúl Shinmun en 1994. Es autora de las novelasx{0026}lt;I La vegetarianax{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Booker Internacional 2016), x{0026}lt;I La clase de griegox{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2023), x{0026}lt;I Actos humanos x{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Manhae de Literatura de Corea y Premio Malaparte en Italia en 2017), x{0026}lt;I Blanco x{0026}lt;/I (finalista del Premio Booker Internacional 2018) e x{0026}lt;I Imposible decir adiósx{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2024; Premio Médicis Étranger 2023), así como del poemario x{0026}lt;I Guardé el anochecer en el cajónx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2025). La autora ha recibido también el Premio Yi Sang, el Premio Artista Joven del Año, el 25. Premio de Novela Coreana, el Premio de Literatura Hwang Sun-Won y el Premio de Literatura Dong Ri. Hasta 2018 trabajó como profesora en el departamento de Escritura Creativa del Instituto de las Artes de Seúl, y en la actualidad se dedica por completo a la escritura. Su obra ha sido publicada en más de treinta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P