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
MeOghi 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 of isolation and neglect in all of its
banal and brutal forms. 'Like Hitchcock or Abe Pyun peers head on into the unnerving depths of
human grief' Blake Butler author of 300 000 000'While reading The Hole you'll find yourself
suddenly doubting everything' Kyung-sook Shin New York Times bestselling author of Please Look
After Mother
