The Hole

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Hye-Young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell

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English

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Paperback

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Penguin

Author:

Hye-Young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell

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English

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The Hole is a haunting and suspenseful Korean novel that delves deep into the psychological terror of isolation, grief, and obsession. After a devastating car crash leaves Oghi paralyzed and unable to speak, he finds himself completely dependent on his mother-in-law—the only family he has left after the accident also claimed his wife’s life. As she quietly mourns the loss of her daughter, Oghi lies helpless in a room filled with memories of the woman he loved, especially her devotion to the garden she so carefully tended.
But something is off. Isolated from friends, ignored by his nurse, and trapped in his own body, Oghi watches as his mother-in-law becomes increasingly fixated on the garden. What begins as simple care turns into something darker—she begins tearing up her daughter’s beloved plants and obsessively digging large, unexplained holes.
Tense and deeply unsettling, The Hole is both a masterclass in suspense and a chilling meditation on grief and emotional decay. Called “a Korean take on Misery” by Time and praised for its unnerving depth by critics, it’s a bestseller in Korea that will leave readers questioning what’s real—and who they can trust.

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The Hole is a haunting and suspenseful Korean novel that delves deep into the psychological terror of isolation, grief, and obsession. After a devastating car crash leaves Oghi paralyzed and unable to speak, he finds himself completely dependent on his mother-in-law—the only family he has left after the accident also claimed his wife’s life. As she quietly mourns the loss of her daughter, Oghi lies helpless in a room filled with memories of the woman he loved, especially her devotion to the garden she so carefully tended.
But something is off. Isolated from friends, ignored by his nurse, and trapped in his own body, Oghi watches as his mother-in-law becomes increasingly fixated on the garden. What begins as simple care turns into something darker—she begins tearing up her daughter’s beloved plants and obsessively digging large, unexplained holes.
Tense and deeply unsettling, The Hole is both a masterclass in suspense and a chilling meditation on grief and emotional decay. Called “a Korean take on Misery” by Time and praised for its unnerving depth by critics, it’s a bestseller in Korea that will leave readers questioning what’s real—and who they can trust.

About Author

Hye-young Pyun was born in 1972 in Seoul and earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. Her published works include the short story collections Aoi Garden, To the Kennels, Evening Courtship, and Night Passes; and the novels City of Ash and Red, They Went to the Western Forest, The Law of Lines, The Hole, and Let the Dead. She has received many awards in Korea, including the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, the Yi Hyo-Seok Literature Prize, the Today's Young Writer Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundai Munhak) Award. Her novel The Hole was the 2017 winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and City of Ash and Red was an NPR Great Read. In 2019, she was awarded the Kim Yujeong Literary Award for her short story “Hotel Window”. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and Words Without Borders. She currently teaches creative writing at Myongji University and lives in Seoul, Korea. Sora Kim-Russell's translations include Un-su Kim's The Plotters; Hwang Sok-yong's At Dusk, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize; and Suah Bae's Nowhere to be Found. Her full list of publications can be found at sorakimrussell.com. She lives in Seoul, Korea.