
Hunger
'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR
Choi Jin-young(Author)
BRAZEN (Publisher)
Published on 9. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-84091-902-8 (ISBN)
Description
IF PARASITE WERE A RECORD-BREAKING LITERARY SENSATION
OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD
'An instant cult classic... You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR
'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, Judge of the International Booker Prize
'As slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty
On an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her boyfriend murdered in the street. Time stops. Until she lifts his body from the concrete, cradles it to her chest and carries him home, where she disinfects every inch of skin before beginning.
As the man witnesses his own funeral from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - lament a lifetime of bone-grinding labour in a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. In a final act of rebellion and sacrament, she claims his body as hers and entombs the corpse within her flesh where her soulmate will live again.
A decade after it was first published, the underground sensation that tests the limits of what the human heart can endure is still crawling under your skin and staying there. Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic that cuts to the core of love, capitalism, and the things they do to us.
YOU ARE W?H?A?T? WHO YOU EAT
OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD
'An instant cult classic... You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR
'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, Judge of the International Booker Prize
'As slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty
On an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her boyfriend murdered in the street. Time stops. Until she lifts his body from the concrete, cradles it to her chest and carries him home, where she disinfects every inch of skin before beginning.
As the man witnesses his own funeral from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - lament a lifetime of bone-grinding labour in a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God. In a final act of rebellion and sacrament, she claims his body as hers and entombs the corpse within her flesh where her soulmate will live again.
A decade after it was first published, the underground sensation that tests the limits of what the human heart can endure is still crawling under your skin and staying there. Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic that cuts to the core of love, capitalism, and the things they do to us.
YOU ARE W?H?A?T? WHO YOU EAT
Reviews / Votes
An instant cult classic. You have to read it to believe it * HARPER'S BAZAAR * A feast for the literary senses -- Anton Hur, Translator of Cursed Bunny Hunger is as slender as it is profound -- LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty A gutting, unforgettable ode to doomed love -- HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril -- FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face I could not put it down -- JADE SONG, author of Chlorine Mesmerising. Inject it into my veins again -- IRENOSEN OKOJIE, author of NudibranchMore details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
130 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84091-902-8 (9781840919028)
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CHOI JIN-YOUNG is one of South Korea's best-known 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.