The Hole by Pyun, Hye-Young

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Author: Pyun, Hye-YoungThriller / suspensePublished on 24 July 2025 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Doubleday) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 224 pages214 x 136 x 20 | 238g
Fall into the chilling and claustrophobic psychological novel and Korean bestseller from the award-winning author, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Olga Ravn.WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDSOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING THEO JAMES AND SQUID GAMES HOYEONA superbly insidious and atmospheric chiller about caring and cruelty: grief, isolation, helplessness and existential fear GuardianKoreas answer to Stephen King . . . a thoughtful and elegant exploration of a relationship . . . increasingly unnerving ObserverBeautifully haunting Probably my favourite book Ive ever read. 5-star reader reviewFollowing a devastating car crash that killed his wife, Oghi wakes in hospital to find himself trapped in his own body and under the control of his vengeful mother-in-law as she grieves the loss of her only child.Isolated from his friends and neglected by his nurse, Oghis 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 holesA bestseller in Korea, 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.Praise for The HoleA gripping read for fans of literary horror The BooksellerWill stay with you long after you turn the last page Heather Parry, author of Carrion Crow and Orpheus Builds a GirlMasterfully unsettling. Leon Craig, author of Parallel HellsLike Hitchcock or Abe, Pyun peers head on into the unnerving depths of human grief Blake Butler, author of 300,000,000A Korean take on Misery TimeSuspenseful, eerie and surprisingly profound Big IssueWhile reading The Hole, youll find yourself suddenly doubting everything Kyung-sook Shin, New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After MotherA chilling psychological thriller . . . the reader is drawn in deeper with each new revelation PA Media