Books like I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
A man who helps strangers end their lives narrates the stories of the clients and lovers he has known in a cool, cinematic novel of 1990s Seoul.
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A gang of boys worship a sailor for embodying the heroic ideal, but when the sailor softens into domesticity, they decide he must be punished.
Love in the Big City
A young gay writer in Seoul makes his way through flatmates, flings, and illness, in a novel-in-stories about finding and losing love in the city.
The Vegetarian
A Korean woman stops eating meat, and her quiet refusal escalates into a crisis that consumes her family and transforms her body into something inhuman.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A thirty-three-year-old Seoul woman begins speaking in the voices of other women, and her psychiatrist's report on her life lays out the sexism she has met at every stage.
The Lake
Gimpei Momoi, a former teacher who lost his job after an affair with a pupil, can't stop following women he sees in the street, and his memories drift back to a lake of his childhood.
The Story of Zahra
Zahra, a young woman scarred by her childhood in Beirut, comes home from Africa as the civil war begins, and starts an affair with a sniper.
Burnt Sugar
Antara, an artist in Pune, cares for her mother Tara, who is losing her memory, a woman who once walked out on her marriage for an ashram and dragged her small daughter along.
Less Than Zero
A college student returns to 1980s Los Angeles and drifts through a world of cocaine, parties, and moral emptiness.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
Adrift on the Nile
Anis Zaki, a civil servant in a pointless job, spends his nights smoking hashish with a circle of friends on a houseboat on the Nile.
Demons
A provincial Russian town is thrown into chaos by a small cell of revolutionaries, led by a manipulative young radical and orbiting the magnetic, hollow nobleman Stavrogin.