India, Feb. 18 -- Written by Kyung-Ran Jo, and translated from the Korean by Chi Young Kim, Blowfish is the story of two unnamed characters - a female sculptor who wants to end her life, and a male architect who wants to save hers. The architect lost his brother to suicide. He believes he could have saved his brother as he was the last person the latter spoke to before jumping out of a window. The sculptor, on the other hand, has lived her entire life in the shadow of her grandmother's suicide executed by drinking a lethal blowfish soup.

Set in the cities of South Korea and Japan, Blowfish presents the alternating viewpoints of the sculptor and the architect. In an interview with the Hong Kong Review, Kyung- Ran Jo says that both Tokyo a...