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The Hole

The Hole
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
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Hol
ISBN
9781628727807
Page
208
Volume
-
Pyun Hye Young
  • PYUN HYE YOUNG
  • Birth : 1972 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Hye Young
  • Family Name : Pyun
  • Korean Name : 편혜영
  • ISNI : 0000000380038967
  • Works : 38
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 813 편혜영 홀-김 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Published Year Publisher Country Vendor
2020 Dreamscape Media UNITED STATES OverDrive
Descriptions
  • English(English)

 

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.

 

 

source: amazon.com

 

 

Awards
  • 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards