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\"Copies Copies of Han Kang’s “Light and Thread” are stacked at the Kyobo Book Center’s Gwanghwamun store in central Seoul on April 24. (Yonhap) <\/p>\n

Nobel literature laureate Han Kang’s latest book has topped a local bestseller list upon its release.<\/p>\n

Major bookstore chain Kyobo Book Center said Friday that the book, titled “Light and Thread,” claimed the No. 1 spot on its bestseller list for the last week of April.<\/p>\n

Han’s first publication since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, the book contains a total of 12 writings, including five poems and several new prose pieces.<\/p>\n

Three of the writings stem from the Nobel Prize in Literature award events last December: the full text of the laureate lecture “Light and Thread,” delivered at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm; the acceptance speech “Even In the Darkest Night” given at the subsequent banquet; and the message “A Small Teacup,” left upon donating a teacup to the Nobel Prize Museum.<\/p>\n

Among the new prose pieces, “North-facing Garden” describes the garden she tended at her first fully-owned home bought in 2019, while “Garden Diary” chronicles the garden’s plant life over two years starting in 2021.<\/p>\n

The book, which was released last Wednesday, has drawn particularly strong interest from female readers, who made up 69.7 percent of its audience, according to Kyobo. (Yonhap)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Copies of Han Kang’s “Light and Thread” are stacked at the Kyobo Book Center’s Gwanghwamun store in central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[15842,3444,77,7299,15839,15838,31766,15840,15841,15837,16,15,15844,15845,15843],"class_list":{"0":"post-67501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-asia-news","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-k-pop","12":"tag-koreaherald","13":"tag-korean-news","14":"tag-kpop","15":"tag-south-korea-news","16":"tag-south-korea-news-in-english","17":"tag-the-korea-herald","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-15844","21":"tag-15845","22":"tag-15843"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114436406331747011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}