Choi Jin-young

Hunger (eBook, ePUB)

Romeo & Juliet meets The Vegetarian in the Korean cult classic that sold a quarter of a million copies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Octopus
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781840919035
• Artikelnr.: 72255982

Autorenporträt

Choi Jin-young is one of Korea's most celebrated authors. Her career started in 2006 when she won the Silcheon Literature Debut Author Award. She has since won many more including the Hankyoreh Literary Award, Shin Dong-yup Literary Prize, Baek Shin-ae Literature Award, Manhae Prize for Literature and, most recently, the Yi Sang Literary Award.