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The Hole

Written by: Hye-Young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell - translator
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
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In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi wakes 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.

As Oghi desperately searches for a way to escape, he discovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her.

The winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and a best seller 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.

©2018 Hye-Young Pyun (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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It was a pretty decent book but I definitely wanted and expected more from it. I would strongly recommend not reading the blurb (or reading only the first 1-2 sentences of the blurb) because I feel it has some major spoilers. It’s well-written, interesting and keeps you invested for sure. The ending was quite underwhelming for me - possibly because of the blurb or maybe I just needed more. The translator has done a brilliant job, and the narrator is also very good. Overall, it’s a short, interesting read / listen.

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