{"product_id":"i-want-to-die-but-i-want-to-eat-tteokbokki-by-baek-sehee","title":"'I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki' by Baek Sehee","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e records Baek Sehee’s conversations with her psychiatrist alongside her own reflections she has whilst being depressed back out in the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book holds itself in this liminal state. A wanting of attention while fearing intimacy, feeling fraudulent in one’s unhappiness, envying apparently uncomplicated people, drinking too much, worrying about appearance, medication, work, boredom, friendship, self-esteem. The title gets at its entire operating principle — despair can coexist perfectly well with appetite, errands, jokes and the desire for dinner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe therapy transcripts can be disarmingly mundane, occasionally uncomfortable, and sometimes funny; precisely what makes them useful is their refusal to turn treatment into a sequence of profound breakthroughs. A very readable book about ambivalence, self-surveillance and the strange distance between knowing why you behave a certain way and actually being able to stop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition: Bloomsbury, 2022. English-language paperback edition, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur. First published in Korean in 2018; first published in Great Britain in 2022.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67585944682579,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-10-03T124542.743.png?v=1790995649","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/i-want-to-die-but-i-want-to-eat-tteokbokki-by-baek-sehee","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}