{"product_id":"light-and-thread-han-kang","title":"Light and Thread (Han Kang)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is love?\u003cbr\u003eIt is the gold thread connecting between our hearts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth intimate and illuminating, \u003ci\u003eLight and Thread\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for all readers of Han Kang's unique body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHan Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and published her first short story in 1994. She won the Man Booker International Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/i\u003e and was shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe White Book\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2024, Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong other major awards and prizes she is the winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger 2023 for the French edition of \u003ci\u003eWe Do Not Part\u003c\/i\u003e. She taught in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts for eleven years before leaving in 2018 to focus on writing. She is the fifth writer to contribute to the ongoing Future Library project in Oslo, Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\nBorn and raised in Korea, translator Maya West has an MFA in prose from the University of Michigan and operates an independent project space in Seoul called SALT.\ne. yaewon translates from and into Korean. Most recently, she translated Hwang Jungeun's \u003ci\u003edd's Umbrella\u003c\/i\u003e and Maggie Nelson's \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e and co-translated Han Kang's \u003ci\u003eGreek Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e and Samuel Beckett's \u003ci\u003eSelected Shorter Plays\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cb\u003ePaige Aniyah Morris\u003c\/b\u003e translates from Korean and divides her time between South Korea and the United States. Her recent translations include Heuijung Hur's \u003ci\u003eFailed Summer Vacation \u003c\/i\u003eand her co-translation with e. yaewon of Han Kang's \u003ci\u003eWe Do Not Part\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 176 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65766599655773,"sku":"K098955617","price":13.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9895561700001A.jpg?v=1788255649","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/light-and-thread-han-kang","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}