When hunger for survival consumes you, what can be left of morality?
‘An instant cult classic. You have to read it’ HARPER’S BAZAAR
‘A feast for the literary senses’ ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny
On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her boyfriend murdered in the street. Time stops. Until she lifts his body from the concrete, cradles it to her chest, and carries him home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning.
As the man witnesses his own funeral, their two voices – living and dead – tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money or God. In a final act of rebellion and resurrection, she entombs the corpse within her flesh where her soulmate will live again.
A decade after it was originally published, the psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us continues to test the limits of what humans can endure. Hunger will crawl under your skin, skin into your bones, and stay there forever.
‘As slender as it is profound’ LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Hunger does in a hundred pages what big books often fail to do’ READER ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Unforgettable’ HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘It might be one of the best love stories ever written’ READER ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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‘An instant cult classic. You have to read it’ HARPER’S BAZAAR
‘A feast for the literary senses’ ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny
On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her boyfriend murdered in the street. Time stops. Until she lifts his body from the concrete, cradles it to her chest, and carries him home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning.
As the man witnesses his own funeral, their two voices – living and dead – tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money or God. In a final act of rebellion and resurrection, she entombs the corpse within her flesh where her soulmate will live again.
A decade after it was originally published, the psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us continues to test the limits of what humans can endure. Hunger will crawl under your skin, skin into your bones, and stay there forever.
‘As slender as it is profound’ LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Hunger does in a hundred pages what big books often fail to do’ READER ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Unforgettable’ HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘It might be one of the best love stories ever written’ READER ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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Reviews
A feast for the literary senses
A feast for the literary senses
A gutting, unforgettable ode to doomed love
Mesmerising. Inject it into my veins again
Hunger is as slender as it is profound
Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril
I could not put it down
An instant cult classic. You have to read it to believe it