Publisher's Synopsis
I could go to the police station and confess.
I could find a priest and confess.
I ate a person. Is that a sin?
ROMEO & JULIET meets THE VEGETARIAN in the cult classic phenomenon that sold half a million copies - by one of Korea's best literary authors
It begins at their end.
When Dam discovers her boyfriend, Gu, murdered on the street, time stands still - until she cradles the resplendent corpse in her arms, carries it home, and begins to speak with him. A string of monologues stretching between this realm and the next binds two unlucky souls in the story of a love starved by life, until death, do them part - or part by part...
At the end, Dam confesses: she has been slowly eating the ritually bathed and embalmed corpse cradled to her chest, electing to entomb him in herself - where Gu will now live on - forever.
At once romantic and horrific, HUNGER is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling Korean cult classic cutting to the very heart of love and the things we do for it.
If you love pitch-black East Asian stories like Butter, Squid Game, or The Vegetarian, you'll devour HUNGER.
