WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD
''A Korean take on Misery'' Time
''A masterwork of suspense, and a profound meditation on grief, solitude, and secrecy'' Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me
Oghi wakes in a hospital bed unable to speak or move. The car accident that killed his wife has left him trapped in his own body and under the control of his mother-in-law, as she grieves the loss of her only child.
Isolated from his friends and neglected by his nurse, Oghi-s world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his wife, a sensitive woman who found solace in cultivating her garden.
But as Oghi remains alone and paralysed, his mother-in-law is hard at work in the now-abandoned garden, uprooting what her daughter had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes-
A bestseller in Korea, The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors o
