Hunger
NO LAW, NO GUN, NO GOD COULD STOP ME NOW. ONLY HIM.
THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON
A ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION HIT WITH OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD
'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, judge of the INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
'Perfect for fans of BUTTER and Nobel-Prize winning THE VEGETARIAN' WATERSTONES
A woman sees her man murdered on the street - and time stands still.
Until she cradles his corpse to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch of skin before seating herself to begin. What happens next reverberates from this realm into the next, where the man is witnessing his own funeral.
Together, the lovers lament a lifetime of working themselves to the bone in a country sucking everyone dry - but it's too late. The woman is already eating and beating them at their own barbaric game, entombing the body in her own where her soulmate will live again.
The word-of-mouth sensation that's on everyone's lips, HUNGER is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic that cuts to the very heart of love, money and the things they do to us.
HUNGER CHARTED FOR OVER HALF A YEAR, BREAKING RECORDS FOR LITERARY FICTION IN SOUTH KOREA.
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'Read at your peril' FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face
'Raw beauty... It will consume you as you consume it' DEAN ATTA, author of The Black Flamingo
'As slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty
'I could not put it down' JADE SONG, author of Chlorine
'A hefty work of creative genius' BARBARA ZITWER, author of The Korean Book of Happiness
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