Hunger
On sale
26th June 2025
Price: £9.99
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‘An instant cult classic. You have to read it’ HARPER’S BAZAAR
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I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess.
I ate a person. Is that a sin?
On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her lover dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task.
As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices – living and dead – tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God.
A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us.
‘A feast for the literary senses’ ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny
‘A novel as slender as it is profound’ LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty
When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality?
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‘An instant cult classic. You have to read it’ HARPER’S BAZAAR
‘Ambitious… A compelling read’ ESQUIRE
I could go to the police and confess. I could visit the priest and confess.
I ate a person. Is that a sin?
On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her lover dead in the street. She cradles the body to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning her macabre task.
As the man witnesses his own interment from beyond, their two voices – living and dead – tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But this woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money, or God.
A decade in the making, Hunger is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult phenomenon about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us.
‘A feast for the literary senses’ ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny
‘A novel as slender as it is profound’ LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty
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Reviews
Hunger glistens with raw and primal romance. I could not put it down
Hunger cuts to the heart. Read at your peril
A feast for the literary senses
A gutting, unforgettable ode to doomed love. Which is to say, all love
A novella as slender as it is profound
Mesmerising. Inject it into my veins again
An instant cult classic. You have to read it to believe it
Ambitious... A compelling read that will leave you wondering
I savoured every word. A novel of remarkable depth