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Blowfish is a Korean novel about two people whose impact on each other is interwoven with their thoughts about death and life, as a sculptor plans her own death using blowfish. A sculptor leaves Seoul for Tokyo with one goal: to end her life, as other family members have done before her. She learns to prepare blowfish from a man in Tsukiji Market, whilst she also meets up occasionally with an architect she once met before. He is haunted by his brother's death and sees something similar in the woman; their dance around each other and their own reflections take their lives in new directions.
This book is lyrical and hazy, alternating in perspective between the two characters, and this means that at times you have to pay careful attention to work out what is going on. I was expecting more of a focus on the blowfish element given the title, but really that is more of a means of death and a way for the woman to be connected to her grandmother, who died by purposefully making and eating toxic blowfish soup. The man's narrative is even hazier, with snippets slowly revealed about his relationship with his brother and his parents. There's quite a lot about art and architecture also woven in, and that lost me at times as I don't know much about either, but it formed part of the characters' reflections about life.
Overall, I think this book is good if you're looking for slow reflections about death and life (and it should be noted before going in that a lot of the book is about suicide), but for me, I was looking for something a bit more sharp, so I didn't always click with this one.