Hunger: Romeo & Juliet meets The Vegetarian in the Korean cult classic that sold over 300,000 copies

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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 a quarter of a million copies - by one of Korea's best literary authors

It begins at the end. When Dam discovers her boyfriend, Gu, murdered on the street by money-hungry loan sharks, time stops - until she cradles the resplendent corpse in her arms, carries it home, and begins to speak. A string of monologues stretched between this realm and the next binds 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 been slowly eating the ritually bathed and embalmed corpse cradled to her chest, choosing to bury 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.