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The Hole

Pyun Hye-young

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#2281 of 8,085 books · #213 in Horror

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (2017).

The Hole won the Shirley Jackson Award. Oghi wakes in a hospital bed unable to speak or move. The car accident that killed his wife has left him trapped in his own body and under the control of his 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. 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.

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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
ISBN-13
9780811228886
Topics
Isolation and helplessnessGrief and revengeFamily and control

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