The Hole
- Author Hye-Young Pyun
- Narrator Tim Campbell
- Publisher Transworld
- Publish Date 24 July 2025
- Run Time 4 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction in translation, Horror and supernatural fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: health and illness, Narrative theme: Interior life, Psychological thriller.
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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 of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms.
'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
'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
© Hye-Young Pyun 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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