How to Pick a Book for a Korean Middle Schooler

Me: What about The Sun Also Rises?
E: Too racy
Me; What about Sula?
E: We already do Morrison
Me: What about Siddhartha? Too hippie dippy?
E: hmmm
Me:Oh what about Hiroshima?
e: It's about the Japanese, we can't pick a book about the Japanese in Korea
me: Yeah, but it's about the Japanese being nuked, they'll LOVE it