I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

Name: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
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ISBN: 9780156030809

ISBN-10: 0156030802

ISBN-13: 9780156030809

Edition: 2007

Authors: Young-ha Kim, Chi-Young Kim

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In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman--Se-yeon--who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells of his work helping the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. Dreamlike and beautiful, the South Korea brought forth in this novel is cinematic in its urgency and its reflection of contemporary life everywhere--far beyond the boundaries of the Korean peninsula. Recalling the emotional tension of Milan Kundera and the existential anguish of Bret Easton Ellis, "I Have the Right to Destroy…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.99" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

YOUNG-HA KIM's Black Flower won Korea's Dong-in Prize; his first novel, "I Have the Right to Destroy Myself "was highly acclaimed upon publication in the United States. He has earned a reputation as the most talented and prolific Korean writer of his generation, publishing five novels and three collections of short stories.