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Name of Book: The Hole
Auhtor: Hye Young Pyun
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Publication Date: 24 July 2025
No. of Pages: 214
Format: Digital
Following a devastating car crash that killed his wife, Oghi wakes in hospital to find himself trapped in his own body and under the control of his vengeful 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…
My Opinion
The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun is a masterfully crafted slow-burn psychological horror that seeps quietly into the reader’s psyche. The narrative unfolds with deliberate restraint, allowing tension to accumulate in unsettling layers. With only two central characters, the story remains intensely focused, and each is etched with remarkable psychological depth. The shifting perspectives are placed with precision, constantly unsettling assumptions and steering the emotional trajectory. The author skillfully withholds clarity, making the climax both inevitable and devastating. The emotional turbulence leading to the end is deeply affecting. I only wished it had been longer to linger more in its haunting atmosphere.
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