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The hole : a novel / Hye-young Pyun ; translated by Sora Kim-Russell.

by Pyun, Hye-young, 1972-

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Arcade Publishing, c2017.

Grief -- Fiction.

Wives -- Death -- Fiction.

Traffic accident victims -- Fiction.

Mothers-in-law -- Fiction.

9781628727807 (hc.)

1628727802 (hc.)

First English-language edition.

198 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published in Korea as Hol in 2016 by Moonji Publishing.

In English, translated from the Korean.

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 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. 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.

Korean fiction -- Translations into English.

Psychological thriller.

Suspense fiction.

Kim-Russell, Sora.

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