generalalarm 's review for:

The Hole by Pyun Hye-young

4.0

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This book is a quick, bleak, terrifying read. The prose is terse and clean feeling, written in close third person from the perspective of utterly dislikable and newly disabled protagonist, Oghi. Oghi has awaken from a coma after a car accident which killed his wife, and finds himself almost completely paralyzed and in the care of his mother-in-law, who quickly begins to discover the dark underbelly of Oghi's marriage to her daughter. This book was a fascinating melding of body horror and more classical horror elements, and a striking appraisal of society's treatment of disabled people.