I had chosen and no law, no gun, no God could stop me now. Only him. A sleeper hit with over a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies soldTHE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON'Perfect reading for fans of BUTTER and Nobel-Prize winning THE VEGETARIAN' WATERSTONES'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, judge of the INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA woman sees her man murdered on the street - and time stands still.
Until she cradles his corpse to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch of skin before seating herself to begin. What happens next reverberates from this realm into the next, where the man is witnessing his own funeral. Together, the lovers lament a lifetime of working their fingers to the bone in a country sucking everyone dry - but a choice has already been made.
The woman is beating them at their own barbaric game, eating and entombing the body in her own where her soulmate will live again. The word-of-mouth sensation that everyone has an opinion on, HUNGER is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic that cuts to the very heart of love, money and the things they do to us. HUNGER was a top bestseller for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in South Korea.
