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I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Harvest Original)
by Young-Ha Kim
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780156030809 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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 Myself achieves its author's greatest wish — to show Korean literature as part of an international tradition. Young-ha Kim is a young master, the leading literary voice of his generation.
Review:
"As bleak, chilling, and economically written as Stephen Cranes 1890s classics....Mesmerizing." Booklist
Review:
"Mr. Kim's writing is tense, elemental, tangy. Like Georges Simenon, his keen engagement with human perversity yields an abundance of thrills as well as chills (and for good measure, a couple of memorable laughs). This is a real find." Han Ong, author of Fixer Chao
About the Author
Young-Ha Kim has published three novels and numerous short stories and has a daily radio show. He teaches drama at the Korean National University of Arts and has received all of Korea's top literary awards. He lives in Seoul.
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mikeydoc, August 19, 2007 (view all comments by mikeydoc)
INTENSE AND EDGY SO MUCH IMAGERY PACKED INTO A RELATIVELY SMALL BOOK,IT IS LIKE BEING CATAPAULTED, RACING AT A HUDRED MILES AN HOUR,JUST WONDERFUL!!
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C.M. Taylor, August 11, 2007 (view all comments by C.M. Taylor)
With just over one hundred pages in which to lay down his craft, Kim makes every word count. This is an intensely cryptic, yet tender novel.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780156030809
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Harvest Books
- Translator:
- Kim, Chi-Young
- Author:
- Author:
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- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Subject:
- Brothers
- Subject:
- Seoul (Korea)
- Subject:
- Kim, Yong-ha
- Series:
- Harvest Original
- Publication Date:
- July 2007
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 119
- Dimensions:
- 794x662x39 33
