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?'
It begins at the end.
When Dam discovers her boyfriend, Gu, murdered on the street by loan sharks, time stops - until she cradles the resplendent corpse in her arms, carries it home and begins to speak. A string of monologues stretches between this realm and the next, binding two 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 slowly been eating the ritually bathed and embalmed corpse cradled to her chest, choosing to entomb Gu in herself - where he will now live on - forever.
At once romantic and horrific, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling Korean cult classic that cuts to the very heart of love and the things we do for it.
