#light and thread

[books-are-portals]

Isn't it strange?

That people we have never once met thicken us

Isn't it frightening?

That layers of time-space we have never actually traversed make us heavy

Because we are not confined to our height and weight

Because we swell up

Into billions of layers

Because those billions of layers

Condense and grow firm

Sound(s) from Light and Thread by Han Kang, trans. by Maya West

[kamreadsandrecs]

Han Kang’s Light and Thread is a Love Letter to Language

The experience of reading a Han Kang novel can be likened to that of a detective newly arrived on the scene of a poorly covered up crime: la

[kammartinez]

Han Kang’s Light and Thread is a Love Letter to Language

The experience of reading a Han Kang novel can be likened to that of a detective newly arrived on the scene of a poorly covered up crime: la