Pyun, HyeYoung
The Hole
- ISBN 13:
- 9781628729917
- author:
- Pyun, HyeYoung
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Arcade Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 20.8 x 13.7 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary, Fiction & Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
A psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury, The Hole is a tense and gripping novel about isolation and neglect. After a devastating car accident, a man wakes from a coma to find himself paralyzed and badly disfigured, his world shrinking to the small room he lies in. His mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child, is his sole caretaker, and her presence is a constant reminder of his own isolation. As the man struggles to come to terms with his new reality, he becomes increasingly obsessed with the abandoned garden in front of the house, where his wife had spent countless hours cultivating life. But his mother-in-law is uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant, digging larger and larger holes with an obsessive intensity. As the man searches for a way to escape, he uncovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her.