Light and Thread by Han Kang review – a tantalising book of reflections

This prose work from the Nobel literature winner opens up her novels and offers beautiful imagery When Korean novelist Han Kang won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024, the committee praised her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. In other words, Han’s work looks both out at the world – towards the 1980 Gwangju massacre fictionalised in her novel Human Acts –  and inward to the human experience, as with The Vegetarian’s portrait ...

By John Self