{"product_id":"the-hole-paperback-6","title":"The Hole - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHye-Young Pyun\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSora Kim-Russell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine. \u003ci\u003eMisery\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/i\u003e in this psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bestseller in Korea, \u003ci\u003eThe Hole\u003c\/i\u003e is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms. 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHye-young Pyun\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1972. She\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eearned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. Her published works include the short story collections \u003ci\u003eAoi Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo The Kennels\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvening Courtship\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNight Passes\u003c\/i\u003e; and the novels \u003ci\u003eCity of Ash and Red\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThey Went to the Western Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Lines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hole\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLet The Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received 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 \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHole\u003c\/i\u003e was the 2017 winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and \u003ci\u003eCity of Ash and Red \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e. She currently teaches creative writing at Myongji University and lives in Seoul, Korea. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSora Kim-Russell\u003c\/b\u003e's translations include, besides \u003ci\u003eThe Hole\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity of Ash and Red, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Lines\u003c\/i\u003e by Hye-young Pyun, Un-su Kim's \u003ci\u003eThe Plotters;\u003c\/i\u003e Hwang Sok-yong's \u003ci\u003eAt Dusk\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize; and Suah Bae's \u003ci\u003eNowhere to be Found\u003c\/i\u003e. Her full list of publications can be found at sorakimrussell.com. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247735390457,"sku":"9781628729917","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/hb2bGiDUkC9781628729917_cd88dbc3-d55e-405c-aa56-28e14496f4e3.webp?v=1768627179","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-hole-paperback-6","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}