Hunger
THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON
Choi Jin-young author Soje translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group
Publishing:18th Jun '26
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 18th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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 W̶H̶A̶T̶ WHO YOU EAT
Unusual, bold and an instant cult classic, you have to read it to believe it * Harper's Bazaar *
A feast for the literary senses -- Anton Hur, Judge of the International Booker Prize
A haunting novella, as slender as it is profound, where cannibalism is the highest form of devotion -- Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty
Read at your own peril -- Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face
Mesmerising. Inject it into my veins again -- Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch
Desperate tragedy meets raw beauty. Hungerwill consume you as you consume it -- Dean Atta, author of The Black Flamingo
A novella of remarkable depth. I savoured every word -- Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, author of The Centre
A gutting, unforgettable ode to doomed love. Which is to say, all love -- Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat
Hunger glistens with raw and primal romance. I could not put it down -- Jade Song, author of Chlorine
ISBN: 9781840919028
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
208 pages
Digital original