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Hunger
Choi Jin-young
- Octopus
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Publisher | Octopus |
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ISBN | 9781840919011 |
Publication date | June 2025 |
Edition | Trade Pb |
Dimensions | mm |
Pages | 208 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
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.
Hunger