The Hole A Novel
The Hole by Hye-young Pyun, published by Arcade on October 23, 2018, is a psychological thriller that delves into themes of loneliness and the hidden truths we often avoid. This reprint edition spans 208 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows Oghi, who awakens from a coma after a tragic car accident that resulted in the death of his wife and left him paralyzed and disfigured. As he navigates his new reality, he is cared for by his mother-in-law, who is also grappling with her own grief.
Readers will find a tense exploration of Oghi’s isolation as he remains confined to his room, reflecting on his troubled marriage and the life his wife led. The story intensifies as he observes his mother-in-law obsessively digging in the garden, a space once cherished by his wife. This act of uprooting and digging symbolizes deeper emotional struggles and the complexities of their shared past. The Hole presents a haunting examination of neglect and the psychological toll of their intertwined lives, making it a thought-provoking read for those interested in literary fiction and suspense.
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Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine. Misery meets The Vegetarian in this psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury.
In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife’s life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house.
But soon Oghi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.
A bestseller in Korea, The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms. As Oghi desperately searches for a way to escape, he discovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her.
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