Some books are read. Others put their hand on the back of your neck and lean in close until you can hear them breathing. Molka by Monika Kim, the second novel from the author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, belongs firmly in the second group. It is sleek, unkind, and so committed to its rage that it sometimes overwhelms its own architecture. That is also, mostly, the point. The Setup, Unspoiled Dahye is a young woman in Seoul who has fallen suddenly and completely for Hyukjoon, the chaebol heir of a media empire whose Rolex costs more than her annual rent. Their relationship has the soft-focus shimmer of a K-drama, until a hidden camera turns it into something else entirely. The footage spreads. Hyukjoon disappears across the Pacific. Dahye is left alone with the wreckage, with her mother’s quiet contempt, and with the memory of a sister whose drowned body has refused, after five years, to stay drowned. In a basement office across town, an IT technician named Junyoung is filming the women’s …