Hole
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Hole
Description
Fall into the chilling and claustrophobic psychological novel and Korean bestseller from the award-winning author, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Olga Ravn.
WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD
SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING THEO JAMES AND SQUID GAME'S JUNG HO-YEON
'A superbly insidious and atmospheric chiller about caring and cruelty: grief, isolation, helplessness and existential fear' Guardian
'Korea's answer to Stephen King . . . a thoughtful and elegant exploration of a relationship . . . increasingly unnerving' Observer
'Beautifully haunting... Probably my favourite book I've ever read.' 5-star reader review
Following a devastating car crash that killed his wife, Oghi wakes in hospital to find himself trapped in his own body and under the control of his vengeful mother-in-law as she grieves the loss of her only child.
Isolated from his friends and neglected by his nurse, Oghi's world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his wife, a sensitive woman who found solace in cultivating her garden.
But as Oghi remains alone and paralysed, his mother-in-law is hard at work in the now-abandoned garden, uprooting what her daughter had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes...
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.
Praise for The Hole
'A gripping read for fans of literary horror' The Bookseller
'Will stay with you long after you turn the last page' Heather Parry, author of Carrion Crow and Orpheus Builds a Girl
'Masterfully unsettling.' Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells
'Like Hitchcock or Abe, Pyun peers head on into the unnerving depths of human grief' Blake Butler, author of 300,000,000
'A Korean take on Misery' Time
'Suspenseful, eerie and surprisingly profound' Big Issue
'While reading The Hole, you'll find yourself suddenly doubting everything' Kyung-sook Shin, New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mother
'A chilling psychological thriller . . . the reader is drawn in deeper with each new revelation' PA Media
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