Hunger: The Korean Cult Classic

Hunger: The Korean Cult Classic

Author: Choi, Jin-young
Publisher: Brazen
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781840919011
Pages: 208pp
Weight: 155g
Year: 2025
Price: RM88

The CULT CLASSIC phenomenon that sold more than a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies in Korea

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.

About the Author

Choi Jin-young is one of Korea's most celebrated authors. Her career started in 2006 when she won the Silcheon Literature Debut Author Award. She has since won many more including the Shin Dong-yup Literary Prize, Manhae Literary Prize and, most recently, the Yi Sang Literary Award. Hunger (originally titled Proof of Gu) led the bestseller charts for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea.