How should I proceed after I wrap up this story. What should I do. 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 this record-breaking South Korean sensation of a novella
This story begins with death. When Dam finds the body of her soulmate Gu bruised and battered
on the street by a gang of government debt collectors she is paralysed with grief. As she
cradles his corpse in her defeated arms Dam begins to tell it a story. In a fragmented
sequence of monologues and meditations this unexpected novella slowly builds into a panoramic
portrait of two like souls who have passed a lifetime in utter devotion to one another. It's a
story that snakes between past and present where as she narrates Dam is committing one final
act to the tale of their undying love. Dam is slowly eating Gu whose body she has lovingly
washed embalmed and elected to preserve in her own - where he will rest - for all eternity. At
once romantic and horrific HUNGER is an instant classic of philosophical fiction that cuts to
the very heart of existence love loss and how ferociously we rage - tooth and nail - against
our own mortality.
