{"product_id":"9781529954869","title":"The Hole","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Pyun, Hye-Young \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 24\/07\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529954869,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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…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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55287709172085,"sku":"9781529954869","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529954869.jpg?v=1745053105","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529954869","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}