The Hole
Autor Hye-Young Pyun Traducere de Sora Kim-Russellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2027
Coreea de Sud, prezentul imediat. O cameră de spital, apoi un dormitor pustiu. Spațiul se restrânge până la sufocare. Observăm cum Hye-Young Pyun transformă universul domestic într-un instrument de tortură psihologică. Oghi, protagonistul, este prizonier în propriul corp. Paralizat. Mut. Singura lui legătură cu lumea este soacra sa, o femeie zdrobită de doliu care îngrijește grădina soției decedate. Dar nu plantează flori. Sapă gropi. Tot mai mari. Tot mai adânci. Subliniem tensiunea insuportabilă a tăcerii. Pyun nu are nevoie de monștri externi; groaza emană din neglijența banală și din amintirile care se descompun. Dacă The Thickets de Józef Lobodowski v-a captivat prin portretul brutal al supraviețuirii în perioade de haos social, această carte extinde experiența în direcția unei prăbușiri interioare, unde inamicul este propria neputință și trecutul nespovăduit. Comparativ cu atmosfera din The Law of Lines, unde autoarea explora misterul prin dispariție, în The Hole ea perfecționează teroarea statică. Observăm aceeași precizie chirurgicală a limbajului care a consacrat-o în The Owl Cries, dar aici, cadrul este mult mai intim și, implicit, mai devastator. Este un studiu despre vinovăție și pedeapsă, unde grădina devine un personaj activ, un memento al ambițiilor retezate. Credem că acest roman polițist psihologic redefinește limitele rezilienței umane într-un stil care amintește de cele mai negre coșmaruri existențiale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1804997056
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 127 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Hera
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Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută un thriller psihologic dens, fără artificii inutile. Veți descoperi o explorare viscerală a izolării și a fragilității umane, scrisă cu o rigoare stilistică remarcabilă. The Hole oferă o perspectivă unică asupra doliului transformat în obsesie, fiind o lectură esențială pentru fanii literaturii coreene contemporane care apreciază suspansul construit pe nuanțe și atmosferă grea.
Notă biografică
Hye-Young Pyun (Author)
Hye-young Pyun was born in 1972 in Seoul and earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. Her published works include the short story collections Aoi Garden, To the Kennels, Evening Courtship, and Night Passes; and the novels City of Ash and Red, They Went to the Western Forest, The Law of Lines, The Hole, and Let the Dead. She has received many awards in Korea, including the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, the Yi Hyo-Seok Literature Prize, the Today's Young Writer Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundai Munhak) Award. Her novel The Hole was the 2017 winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and City of Ash and Red was an NPR Great Read. In 2019, she was awarded the Kim Yujeong Literary Award for her short story "Hotel Window". Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and Words Without Borders. She currently teaches creative writing at Myongji University and lives in Seoul, Korea.
Sora Kim-Russell (Translator)
Sora Kim-Russell's translations include Un-su Kim's The Plotters; Hwang Sok-yong's At Dusk, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize; and Suah Bae's Nowhere to be Found. Her full list of publications can be found at sorakimrussell.com. She lives in Seoul, Korea.
Descriere scurtă
Fall into the chilling and claustrophobic psychological novel and Korean bestseller from the award-winning author, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Olga Ravn.
WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD
SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING THEO JAMES AND SQUID GAME'S HOYEON
'A superbly insidious and atmospheric chiller about caring and cruelty: grief, isolation, helplessness and existential fear' Guardian
'Korea's answer to Stephen King . . . a thoughtful and elegant exploration of a relationship . . . increasingly unnerving' Observer
'Beautifully haunting... Probably my favourite book I've ever read.' 5-star reader review
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...
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.
Praise for The Hole
'A gripping read for fans of literary horror' The Bookseller
'Will stay with you long after you turn the last page' Heather Parry, author of Carrion Crow and Orpheus Builds a Girl
'Masterfully unsettling.' Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells
'Like Hitchcock or Abe, Pyun peers head on into the unnerving depths of human grief' Blake Butler, author of 300,000,000
'A Korean take on Misery' Time
'Suspenseful, eerie and surprisingly profound' Big Issue
'While reading The Hole, you'll find yourself suddenly doubting everything' Kyung-sook Shin, New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mother
'A chilling psychological thriller . . . the reader is drawn in deeper with each new revelation' PA Media