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The Hole : a Novel by Hye-young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Hye-young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781628727821
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
3.7 / 5 (691 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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