I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

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An unnamed narrator helps people die. He finds the lost and the hurt, listens to their stories, and offers them a way out — peaceful, deliberate, final. Meanwhile, two brothers are drawn to the same woman, and their rivalry spirals toward a darkness the narrator seems to have anticipated all along. Kim Young-ha's debut novel moves through contemporary Seoul with the cool detachment of its narrator — a figure who is part confessor, part predator, and part artist of other people's endings. Slim, cold, and startlingly assured — a novel that treats suicide not as tragedy but as aesthetic choice, and dares you to find the flaw in its logic.