The Hole

<p><b>WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD</b><br><br><b>''A Korean take on <i>Misery</i>'' </b><i>Time</i><br><b>''A masterwork of suspense, and a profound meditation on grief, solitude, and secrecy''</b> Laura van den Berg, author of <i>Find Me</i><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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…<br><br>A bestseller in Korea, <i>The Hole</i> is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms.<br><br><b>''Like Hitchcock or Abe, Pyun peers head on into the unnerving depths of human grief'' </b>Blake Butler, author of <i>300,000,000</i><br><b>''While reading <i>The Hole</i>, you’ll find yourself suddenly doubting everything'' </b>Kyung-sook Shin, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Please Look After Mother</i></p>