Proof of Gu opens with a death of a lover. Finding her partner Gu''s lifeless body, Dam is filled with the emptiness that accompanies grief. But as she speaks to Gu, who lies dead on the street, she reaffirms the love that has been extinguished. Dam''s monologues explore their past, interspersed with passages from Gu''s perspective. Together, their accounts build a picture of their lives. Despite the hardships that knock them off track, we see the lovers'' destiny they shared, two dots meeting along their orbits on the curve of life. And all the while in the present, Dam eats, slowly consuming the dead body - this act of eating, a ritual to preserve their past whole, and a metaphysical proof of undying love. This romance horror novella questioning the meaning of life and death through the loss and mourning of a lost love. Proof of Gu spent over 30 weeks in the country''s Fiction Bestseller list and has hit a quarter of a million copies since publication - a rare milestone for a literary title in Korea - with readers falling for its depiction of destiny, tragedy and love.

Vorwort
ROMEO & JULIET meets THE VEGETARIAN, HUNGER is the quarter-of-a-million-copy Korean cult classic phenomenon that defined a generation

Autorentext

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) was a top bestseller for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea.

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*When hunger for survival consumes you, what can be left of morality?*

IF PARASITE WERE A RECORD-BREAKING BOOK SENSATION TRANSLATED INTO 9 LANGUAGES

HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD

'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR**

'A feast for the literary senses' ANTON HUR, translator of Cursed Bunny

On an ordinary afternoon, a woman finds her boyfriend murdered in the street. Time stops. Until she lifts his body from the concrete, cradles it to her chest, and carries him home, where she disinfects every inch before beginning.

As the man witnesses his own funeral, their two voices - living and dead - tell of a country where the rich feast and the poor starve. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, money or God. In a final act of rebellion and resurrection, she entombs the corpse within her flesh where her soulmate will live again.

A decade after it was originally published, the psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic about love, capitalism, and the things they do to us continues to test the limits of what humanity can endure. Hunger will lodge itself in your soul and stay there forever.

'As slender as it is profound' LING LING HUANG, author of Natural Beauty
'Hunger does in a hundred pages what big books often fail to do' READER
'Unforgettable' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat
**'It might be one of the best love stories ever written' READER**

Zusammenfassung
The cult classic sleeper hit that sold 350,000 copies - from one of the best-known writers at work in South Korea