Hunger

"On an ordinary afternoon, a woman witnesses her partner killed in the street. Time stands still. She lifts his body from the pavement, cradles him, takes him to their home, disinfects each inch of skin--and sits down to begin. As he witnesses his own funeral from beyond, their two voices--one living, the other dead--lament a lifetime of bone-grinding labor in a society that devours everyone whole. But the woman is no longer willing to bow to the law, to God, or to almighty mammon. In an act of love and rebellion, she transforms his body into her own, entombing him within her flesh so that he may live again. Raw, furious, and unflinchingly intimate, 'Hunger' is the Korean underground phenomenon that indicts capitalism, mourns lost love, and pushes the boundaries of what the body can endure in search of justice and survival. A psychologically and philosophically thrilling novel, it cuts to the core of how we are consumed by the world--and how we might consume it back"--