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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 TRANSLATED INTO 9 LANGUAGES
When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality?
HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD
'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'As slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

On a normal afternoon, a woman finds her boyfriend dead in the street. Time stops-

Until she cradles his body to her chest and carries it 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 this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money - or God. In a final act of rebellion, she entombs the corpse the only place where her soulmate will live again.

A decade after it was first published, the psychologically and philosophically thrilling underground phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us will take root in your soul and stay there forever.©2015 Choi Jin-young Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature

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Critic reviews

An instant cult classic. You have to read it to believe it
A feast for the literary senses (Anton Hur, Translator of Cursed Bunny)
Hunger is as slender as it is profound (LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty)
A gutting, unforgettable ode to doomed love (HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat)
Cuts to the heart. Read at your peril (FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face)
I could not put it down (JADE SONG, author of Chlorine)
Mesmerising. Inject it into my veins again (IRENOSEN OKOJIE, author of Nudibranch)
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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