La luz y el hilo

In this luminous and multifaceted book, her first since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang weaves together the threads of her work and her life, tracing the connections between her inner and outer worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, and diaries. A book of reflections, words, and light, centered on the small garden in her north-facing courtyard, where everything grows thanks solely to the sun's rays reflected by mirrors that the author must move throughout the day, as the Earth rotates on its axis. In a poem written at the age of eight, Han Kang imagined a "golden thread" capable of creating bonds: an idea she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Prize acceptance speech. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language to the depths of other hearts, and of her profound sense that an electric current connects the reader to the writer.