I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
A nameless narrator leads us into the stark urban landscape of Seoul and the emotional desolation of its inhabitants. He believes life is only creation and destruction; he helps the lost and hurting find escape through peaceful, graceful suicide. C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same womanSe-yeonwho tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. As these stories interweave, they reveal a startling, riveting portrait of contemporary life in Korea and beyond. With existential drama and harrowing human relation- ships, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself offers a careful and absorbing view of a little-explored setting in Asian literature. Young-ha Kim is a young master, the leading literary voice of his generation.
Size: 168 x 202mm 150g