The Hole

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Author: Hye-young Pyun
Co-Author: -
Translator: Sora Kim-Russell
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published Year: 2017
Country: UNITED STATES
Classification: KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
Original Title: 홀
Original Language: Korean(한국어)
Romanization of Original: Hol
ISBN: 9781628727807
Page: 208
Volume: -

About the Author

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
Author : PYUN HYE YOUNG
Published Year : 2016
English Title : The Hole

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In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi 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. Ogi 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 Ogi 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 Ogi 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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