Hunger
Author: Choi Jin-young
ISBN: 9781846016257
Publisher: Octopus
Year first published: 30 Sep 2025
Pages: 144
Format: Hardback
<h5>IF PARASITE WERE A RECORD-BREAKING BOOK SENSATION</h5><h4>When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality?</h4><h5>HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES</h5>'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAARI could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess.I ate a person. Is that a sin?On an ordinary evening, a woman finds her man dead in the street. Time stops-Until she cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning. As the man witnesses his own funeral, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money - or God.A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us.'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny ? ? ? ? ?'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty ? ? ? ? ?
ISBN: 9781846016257
Publisher: Octopus
Year first published: 30 Sep 2025
Pages: 144
Format: Hardback
<h5>IF PARASITE WERE A RECORD-BREAKING BOOK SENSATION</h5><h4>When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality?</h4><h5>HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES</h5>'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAARI could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess.I ate a person. Is that a sin?On an ordinary evening, a woman finds her man dead in the street. Time stops-Until she cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning. As the man witnesses his own funeral, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money - or God.A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us.'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny ? ? ? ? ?'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty ? ? ? ? ?
