Hunger

Hauntingly disturbing and feverish with love, Hunger cuts to the heart. Read at your own peril. -- Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Desperate tragedy meets raw beauty in this intimate and unflinching love story so specific and vividly rendered that it will consume you as you consume it -- Dean Atta, author of The Black Flamingo Soje brings Choi Jin-young's bestseller about a most extraordinary form of mourning into sharp and satiating clarity. Hunger is a sparse but taut narrative that delivers on an unlikely feast for the literary senses in its shocking premise and precise language -- Anton Hur, judge of the International Booker Prize Mesmerising. This is a riveting, dark and strangely beautiful book. Inject it into my veins again -- Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch Hunger satisfies every literary appetite and taste bud with its heartbreaking, poetic, one-of-a-kind writing style. A short novel, but a hefty work of creative genius -- Barbara Zitwer, author of The Korean Book of Happiness Hunger delves into the raw desperation of grief... Choi's poignant meditation on loss and heartbreak is written with exceptional deftness and profound insight -- Monika Kim, author of The Eyes Are the Best Part A book as slender and strange as it is moving and profound, Hunger is a haunting elegy where cannibalism is the highest form of devotion, and love has the power to give nourishment to the most impoverished lives. I was enraptured -- Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty I savoured every word. This gem of a novel, so slim it could almost be mistaken for a zine, is one of remarkable depth and an expansive exploration of how love can transcend time and space -- Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, author of The Centre A gutting, unforgettable ode to doomed love. Which is to say, all love -- Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat Choi Jin-young's intense novella glistens with raw and primal romance, offering love as the victory over everything that seeks to destroy. I loved it and could not put it down -- Jade Song, author of Chlorine What a propulsive, strangely tender book... Incredibly moving -- E.K. Sathue, author of youthjuice Choi describes life and death in her both lyrical and dark, delicate and cruel voice. You will devour this potentially horrific, beautifully written novel -- Jung-Myung Lee, author of The Investigation A poignant love story about a mouth that eats its meals, a mouth that whispers love, and a mouth that bites into a lover's body -- Dolki Min, author of Walking Practice The true cannibal in the story is not the narrator but the gluttonous society that sucks people's bones dry. Every word of this ultimate love story - painstakingly fed to us by Choi Jin-young and Soje - leaves a delicious, stinging aftertaste -- Sung Ryu, translator Choi Eun-young A heart-moving novel * Now in Seoul *