Hunger
The CULT CLASSIC that sold a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-84091-900-4 (ISBN)
Description
If you liked PARASITE or SQUID GAME, you've come to the right place...
A sleeper hit with over a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies sold
THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON
'Perfect reading for fans of BUTTER and Nobel-Prize winning THE VEGETARIAN' WATERSTONES
I had chosen and no law, no gun, no God, could stop me now. Only him.
A woman finds 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 is a battle cry reverberating from this realm into the next, where the man is watching his own funeral. Together, the couple mourn a lifetime of working their fingers to the bone in a country sucking everyone dry - but a choice has been made. The woman is also eating, burying the body in her own where her soulmate will live again.
The poetic novella that became a word-of-mouth sensation up and down Korea, 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 led the bestseller charts for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea.
A sleeper hit with over a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies sold
THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON
'Perfect reading for fans of BUTTER and Nobel-Prize winning THE VEGETARIAN' WATERSTONES
I had chosen and no law, no gun, no God, could stop me now. Only him.
A woman finds 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 is a battle cry reverberating from this realm into the next, where the man is watching his own funeral. Together, the couple mourn a lifetime of working their fingers to the bone in a country sucking everyone dry - but a choice has been made. The woman is also eating, burying the body in her own where her soulmate will live again.
The poetic novella that became a word-of-mouth sensation up and down Korea, 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 led the bestseller charts for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84091-900-4 (9781840919004)
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Choi Jin-young is one of Korea's most celebrated authors. Her career started in 2006 when she won the Silcheon Literature Debut Author Award. She has since won many more including the Shin Dong-yup Literary Prize, Manhae Literary Prize and, most recently, the Yi Sang Literary Award.
Hunger (originally titled Proof of Gu) was a top bestseller for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea.
Hunger (originally titled Proof of Gu) was a top bestseller for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea.