I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

By Baek Sehee, Anton Hur (translator),

Book cover of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir

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_______________ THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' - Red PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the…

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1 author picked I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a psychologist, I know that depression is the common cold of mental illness, yet as a reader, I haven’t seen many books cover it well. This one is a recent exception.

The fact that BTS’s leader, RM, had this on his bookshelf during their Bon Voyage series may be the reason it has become an international bestseller, but Namjoon’s bookshelf aside, this memoir-meets-self-help narrative is so intimate, it almost feels pornographic.

I came for the title (tteokbokki makes me want to live too, so much so that it also makes a cameo in my own book as well) but…

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