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Hunger
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Hunger

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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.

If you love pitch-black East Asian stories like Squid Game, Butter or Parasite, you'll devour Hunger.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Octopus Publishing Group
Country
United Kingdom
Date
24 June 2025
Pages
208
ISBN
9781840919011

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.

If you love pitch-black East Asian stories like Squid Game, Butter or Parasite, you'll devour Hunger.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Octopus Publishing Group
Country
United Kingdom
Date
24 June 2025
Pages
208
ISBN
9781840919011