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The Hole

About the Audiobook

Author
Hye-young Pyun
Co-Author
-
Translator
Sora Kim-Russell
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Published Year
2020
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
Romanization of Original
Hol
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781662030307
The Series
OVERDRIVE LISTEN AUDIOBOOK

About the Author

Pyun Hye Young
  • PYUN HYE YOUNG
  • Birth : 1972 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Hye Young
  • Family Name : Pyun
  • Korean Name : 편혜영
  • ISNI : 0000000380038967
  • Works : 38
About the Original Work
홀 The Hole
  • Author : PYUN HYE YOUNG
  • Published Year : 2016
  • English Title : The Hole
More About the Original Work
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi wakes 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.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.

The winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and 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.

Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/5712344?cid=37224

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