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The Hole
Shirley Jackson · 2017 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novel | 2017 | Winner | “Pyun Hye-young's Korean body horror novella won for the suffocating claustrophobia of its premise and its cold anatomization of how domestic dependency can become a form of violent captivity.” |
About This Book
A man survives a car accident that kills his wife but leaves him paralyzed. His mother-in-law arrives to care for him—and the obsessive digging she undertakes in the garden is just one aspect of her sinister presence.
About the Author
Pyun Hye-young is a South Korean author of literary horror and dark fiction. She won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for The Hole (2017), a novella about a man who survives a car accident only to find himself bedridden and at the mercy of his deceased wife's controlling mother. Born in Seoul in 1972, Pyun studied creative writing at Hanyang University and the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Read more →
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