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The Hole

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Title Sub
A Novel
Author
Hye-young Pyun
Co-Author
-
Translator
Sora Kim-Russell
Publisher
Arcade
Published Year
2017
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

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

Original Title
홀
Romanization of Original
Hol
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781628727821
Page
-
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

  • PYUN HYE YOUNG
  • Birth : 1972 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Hye Young
  • Family Name : Pyun
  • Korean Name : 편혜영
  • ISNI : 0000000380038967
  • Works : 37
About the Original Work
  • 홀
  • Author : PYUN HYE YOUNG
  • Published Year : 2016
  • English Title : The Hole
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award
Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine.

In this tense, gripping novel by a rising 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, award-winning author Hye-young Pyun's 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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Translated Books12 See More

  • Czech(Český Jazyk) Book
    Jáma
    Pchjon HjeJong / 편혜영 / 2024 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
  • Dutch(Nederlands) Book
    Het gat
    Hye-young Pyun / 편혜영 / 2024 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
  • Turkish(Türkçe) Book
    Çukur
    Pyun Hye-young / 편혜영 / 2021 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
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