Hunger is an enthralling story about love, hope, and perseverance. The novel reveals the mismatch between the ideal and the real world through the story of several generations of one family. In 1897, a young couple flees across the mountains of Norway to build a new life on scarce land. Their cottage is filled with love, but it is also threaded with grief and secrets that affect the present.
Many years later, two widows face years, grudges, secrets, and words left unspoken—while they sit at a table, planning the funeral of one of them.