{"product_id":"the-hole-hye-young-pyun-9781529954869","title":"The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e''A Korean take on Misery'' Time\u003cbr\u003e\n''A masterwork of suspense, and a profound meditation on grief, solitude, and secrecy'' Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOghi 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIsolated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e''Like Hitchcock or Abe, Pyun peers head on into the unnerving depths of human grief'' Blake Butler, author of 300,000,000\u003cbr\u003e\n''While reading The Hole, you’ll find yourself suddenly doubting everything'' Kyung-sook Shin, New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mother\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54958070038871,"sku":"9781529954869","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9781529954869.jpg?v=1788909632","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/the-hole-hye-young-pyun-9781529954869","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}