‘Light and Thread’ by Han Kang (Review)

Today’s choice is a book I actually read a few months back, but at the time I decided just to enjoy it and leave the review for another day. That day has finally arrived, and after a leisurely reread a couple of days ago, I’m ready to share my thoughts. This isn’t the longest of books, and certainly not one I’d recommend as a starting point to the author’s work, but those who are already fans will undoubtedly enjoy the insights into the mind and working habits of a writer who has become a success well beyond her home country ***** Han Kang’s Light and Thread is a collection of assorted texts built around the Korean writer’s Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech of the same name (translated by e.yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris). I covered that essay a couple of years back, a lovely work that begins with the discovery of poems written when she was eight years old and goes on to discuss some of her more famous works, and the questions she asked herself while writing them. However,…