This book definitely feels more like literary fiction than horror to me, bu the horror is very subtle and effective. And also, I'm obsessed with this book co This book really surprised me. And even though this book is less than 200 pages, it was thought provoking and it takes some time to absorb all the ideas presented in this book. This book plays on a lot of real life fears like loneliness and grief and depression, and it very much reminds me of Misery by Stephen King, the plot is very similar. 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. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.Įvoking Herman Koch’s The Dinner and Stephen King’s Misery, award-winning author Hye-young Pyun’s 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. 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. 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. Ogi is neglected and left alone in his bed.
His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. 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 wife’s life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her A bestseller in Korea, a psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury. A bestseller in Korea, a psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury.
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