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Hunger

'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR

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Hunger

By: Choi Jin-young, Soje - translator
Narrated by: Dominic Dong-Hyun Lim, Minhee Yeo
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IF PARASITE WERE A RECORD-BREAKING BOOK SENSATION
When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality?
HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES
'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR
'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE

I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess.
I ate a person. Is that a sin?

On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her lover dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task.

As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God.

A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us.

'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny
'A novel as slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty©2015 Choi Jin-young
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature

Critic reviews

An instant cult classic. You have to read it to believe it
Ambitious... A compelling read that will leave you wondering
A feast for the literary senses (ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny)
Mesmerising. Inject it into my veins again (IRENOSEN OKOJIE, author of Nudibranch)
A novella as slender as it is profound (LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty)
Hunger cuts to the heart. Read at your peril (FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face)
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)
I savoured every word. A novel of remarkable depth (AYESHA MANAZIR SIDDIQI, author of The Centre)
All stars
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Not what I was expecting from the little I knew about it. Story jumped all over the place which was confusing not sure if bits have been lost in translation

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I had no idea what was going on. The many themes didn't seem to relate to the plot. I just didn't get it.

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