Hunger

If you liked PARASITE or SQUID GAME, you've come to the right place... The CULT CLASSIC phenomenon that sold a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies in Korea 'Perfect reading for fans of BUTTER and Nobel-Prize winning THE VEGETARIAN' WATERSTONES I had chosen and no Law, no Gun, no God, could stop me now. Only him. A woman finds a man lying dead on the street - and time stands still. Until she cradles his corpse to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch of skin before seating herself to begin. What happens next is a battle cry reverberating from this realm to the next, where the man is watching his own funeral. Together, the soulmates mourn a life lived working their fingers to the bone in a country sucking everyone dry - but a choice has been made. The woman is also eating, burying the body in her own - where her dead lover will finally get a chance to live - through her. The word-of-mouth sensation that has everyone crazy, HUNGER is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling Korean cult classic that cuts to the very heart of love, money, and the things it does to us. 'A heart-moving novel' NOW IN SEOUL HUNGER led the bestseller charts for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea.