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: laden with clues, grisly, and laced with a complex motive to be teased out. She rewards those willing to follow her trail of ciphers tremendously. Light and Thread is no exception. Article continues after advertisement The Nobel laureate’s capstone book Light and Thread  is her first work of nonfiction published in English. Kang amasses writings from over the course of her career, beginning with her Nobel lecture and reaching deep into her life’s documents, with diaries, poems, and photographs. In a poem written at eight years old, Kang imagines a “gold thread connecting between our hearts.” That thread, to Kang, is love. During her Nobel Lecture, Kang repeatedly appeals to language as a means to kinsmanship, describing her feelings of astonishment at its capacity to transmit her interiority to her readers.…