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In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are\nbrothers who have fallen in love with the same woman-Se-yeon-who\ntears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real\nconnection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator\nhaunts the edges of their lives as he tells of his work helping the\nlost and hurting find escape through suicide. Dreamlike and\nbeautiful, the South Korea brought forth in this novel is cinematic\nin its urgency and its reflection of contemporary life\neverywhere-far beyond the boundaries of the Korean peninsula. \nRecalling the emotional tension of Milan Kundera and the\nexistential anguish of Bret Easton Ellis,_I Have the Right to\nDestroy Myself_achieves its author’s greatest wish-to show\nKorean literature as part of an international tradition. Young-ha\nKim is a young master, the leading literary voice of his\ngeneration.

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