{"id":9027488481498,"title":"light and thread by 한강(Han Kang) Original Korean Edition","handle":"i-do-not-bid-farewell-by-han-kang-a-novel-winner-of-the-2024-nobel-prize-in-literature-original-korean-edition","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"176\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"176\"\u003eAt Last, Spring Arrives Beside Us,\u003cbr data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"140\"\u003eThe Wonder of Awakening Green Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"267\"\u003eTo imagine hope as long as we live—\u003cbr data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"216\"\u003eHan Kang’s record of that long and profound love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"603\"\u003eAwarded the \u003cstrong data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"315\"\u003e2024 Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e for her “intense and lyrical prose that confronts historical trauma head-on while revealing the fragility of human life,” Han Kang now returns with her new work \u003cem data-start=\"477\" data-end=\"495\"\u003eLight and Thread\u003c\/em\u003e (2025), published as the ninth volume in the \u003cem data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"554\"\u003eMunji Écrit\u003c\/em\u003e prose series by Munhakdongne Publishing Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"605\" data-end=\"934\"\u003eThis collection brings together twelve pieces—including the Nobel Prize acceptance lecture \u003cem data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"714\"\u003eLight and Thread\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), unpublished poems and essays, and diary entries written after the author obtained her first true home, her “north-facing room” and “garden.” The book is interwoven with photographs taken by the author herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"936\" data-end=\"1402\"\u003eFor over thirty years, Han Kang has lived as “a person who writes,” driven by the tension and inner struggle between two questions: \u003cem data-start=\"1068\" data-end=\"1112\"\u003e“Why is the world so violent and painful?”\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1168\"\u003e“How is the world at the same time so beautiful?”\u003c\/em\u003e Through this long inquiry, she asks and answers whether the deepest layer of those countless questions has always been oriented toward love—whether that was, in fact, “the most ancient and fundamental resonance of my life.” (p. 29)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1890\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"1407\" data-end=\"1426\"\u003eNorth-Facing Room\u003c\/em\u003e, she describes reading and writing as “a north-facing person,” watching shade-enduring plants take root in a garden with little sunlight, arranging mirrors to capture bits of brightness, and following her small yet earnest daily rituals. Through this, readers are reminded of her words: \u003cem data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1880\"\u003e“Literature, which persistently imagines the first-person voices of the people and creatures inhabiting this planet, inevitably carries the warmth of human breath.”\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 34)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1892\" data-end=\"2200\"\u003e“As I wrote, it was writing itself that pushed me, carrying me toward life.” (p. 57) Turning the pages, readers encounter prose and photographs alternating in black and white, merging and pulling at one another—inviting us to trace the light and shadow of the author’s room and garden, her days and nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2202\" data-end=\"2847\"\u003eFrom childhood memories kept in stapled notebooks some forty years ago, to the yearning for and wonder at living warmth, to the vivid senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling softness, warmth, cold, and pain recorded in her diaries during the pandemic years (2020–2024) in her north-facing room and garden—this book gathers them all. \u003cem data-start=\"2553\" data-end=\"2814\"\u003e“There is a translucent light-green that emerges when sunlight passes through leaves. 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data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"176\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"176\"\u003eAt Last, Spring Arrives Beside Us,\u003cbr data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"140\"\u003eThe Wonder of Awakening Green Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"267\"\u003eTo imagine hope as long as we live—\u003cbr data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"216\"\u003eHan Kang’s record of that long and profound love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"603\"\u003eAwarded the \u003cstrong data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"315\"\u003e2024 Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e for her “intense and lyrical prose that confronts historical trauma head-on while revealing the fragility of human life,” Han Kang now returns with her new work \u003cem data-start=\"477\" data-end=\"495\"\u003eLight and Thread\u003c\/em\u003e (2025), published as the ninth volume in the \u003cem data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"554\"\u003eMunji Écrit\u003c\/em\u003e prose series by Munhakdongne Publishing Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"605\" data-end=\"934\"\u003eThis collection brings together twelve pieces—including the Nobel Prize acceptance lecture \u003cem data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"714\"\u003eLight and Thread\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), unpublished poems and essays, and diary entries written after the author obtained her first true home, her “north-facing room” and “garden.” The book is interwoven with photographs taken by the author herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"936\" data-end=\"1402\"\u003eFor over thirty years, Han Kang has lived as “a person who writes,” driven by the tension and inner struggle between two questions: \u003cem data-start=\"1068\" data-end=\"1112\"\u003e“Why is the world so violent and painful?”\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1168\"\u003e“How is the world at the same time so beautiful?”\u003c\/em\u003e Through this long inquiry, she asks and answers whether the deepest layer of those countless questions has always been oriented toward love—whether that was, in fact, “the most ancient and fundamental resonance of my life.” (p. 29)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1890\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"1407\" data-end=\"1426\"\u003eNorth-Facing Room\u003c\/em\u003e, she describes reading and writing as “a north-facing person,” watching shade-enduring plants take root in a garden with little sunlight, arranging mirrors to capture bits of brightness, and following her small yet earnest daily rituals. Through this, readers are reminded of her words: \u003cem data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1880\"\u003e“Literature, which persistently imagines the first-person voices of the people and creatures inhabiting this planet, inevitably carries the warmth of human breath.”\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 34)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1892\" data-end=\"2200\"\u003e“As I wrote, it was writing itself that pushed me, carrying me toward life.” (p. 57) Turning the pages, readers encounter prose and photographs alternating in black and white, merging and pulling at one another—inviting us to trace the light and shadow of the author’s room and garden, her days and nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2202\" data-end=\"2847\"\u003eFrom childhood memories kept in stapled notebooks some forty years ago, to the yearning for and wonder at living warmth, to the vivid senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling softness, warmth, cold, and pain recorded in her diaries during the pandemic years (2020–2024) in her north-facing room and garden—this book gathers them all. \u003cem data-start=\"2553\" data-end=\"2814\"\u003e“There is a translucent light-green that emerges when sunlight passes through leaves. 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