num_pages: 198
description: A bestseller in Korea a psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury.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 wifes 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.Evoking Herman Kochs The Dinner and Stephen Kings Misery award-winning author Hye-young Pyuns 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.
language: English
title: The Hole
publisher: Arcade