For fans of J. G. Ballard and early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller and Kafkaesque parable by the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award winner—called "an airtight masterpiece" by Korea's Wall street Journal. Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's...

A 2017 Shirley Jackson Award Winner Named one of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time magazine. In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and...

交通事故により、病院でめざめたオギを待っていたのは、混乱・絶望・諦め…。不安と恐怖の中で、オギはいやおうなく過去を一つひとつ検証していくことになる。それとともに事故へ至る軌跡が少しずつ読者に明かされていくのだが。わずかに残された希望の光が見えたとき、オギはー。アメリカの文学賞、シャーリイ・ジャクスン賞２０１７。韓国の小説家で初の長編部門受賞作。 Source URL: https://books...

Novel ini ditulis oleh bintang baru sastra Korea yang tengah melesat di pentas dunia. Dalam novel mencekam yang membuat kita penasaran ini dikisahkan bahwa Oh Gi terjaga dari koma akibat kecelakaan...

Les récits présentés dans ce recueil décrivent un univers flottant entre le rêve et la réalité. Les paysages, qui sont une représentation de décor, la chronologie bousculée des événements, le tout...

Dół to historia Ogiego, który pewnego dnia budzi się w szpitalu i dowiaduje się, że miał wypadek samochodowy, w którym nie tylko stracił żonę, ale także uszkodził kręgosłup. Jego jedyną opiekunką...

グロテスクでありながら美しく、目を逸らしたくとも凝視せずにはいられない―容赦ない筆致で迫りくるピョン・ヘヨンワールドの傑作選。狭いマンホールで身を隠して暮らす子どもたち(『マンホール』)、渓谷で行方不明になった妻のものとおぼしき遺体の確認をする男(『死体たち』)、マイホームを取り囲む不穏な犬の鳴き声(『飼育場の方へ』)ほか、表題含む八編を収録。李箱文学賞を受賞した作家による、鮮烈な短編集。

As the year draws to an end, one of our traditions here at Crime Fiction Lover is to make predictions about which women authors will be the rising stars in the months to come. This is not a comprehensive list, but it’s an opportunity to explore some crime writers who have not yet been extensively...

Kyung-Sok Shin's <The Court Dancer 리진>, Hye-young Pyun's <City of Ash and Red 재와빨강>,selected NPR's Best Books of 2018 : A Novel

Book Review : Pyun Hye-Young's Indonesian translation <The Hole 홀> Novel ini ditulis oleh bintang baru sastra Korea yang tengah melesat di pentas dunia. Dalam novel mencekam yang membuat kita penasaran ini, dikisahkan bahwa Oh Gi terjaga dari koma akibat kecelakaan mobil yang merenggut nyawa...

Novelist Pyun Hye Young Wins US Horror Book Award (2018 Shirley jackson award)

Novelist Pyun Hye-young has won the Shirley Jackson Award for her novel "The Hole." The prize was established in 2007 in memory of the American horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson.

Rounded up from 3.5. City of Ash & Red is the first translated book I’ve read this year and had me all over the spectrum emotionally, mostly in the anxious and disturbed realm. There are certainly nods to Kafka, but the tale itself is a unique blend of dystopian surrealism that is both...

There are so many interesting novels coming out of Korea at the moment – challenging established tropes across a range of genres. Just this year there has been the psychothriller The Good Son, the anti-hero crime drama The Plotters and Toward Dusk, another masterpiece of introspection and...

This is the type of book that left me sitting there going, what the hell did I just read? And don't get me wrong, that's my favourite kind of book. Even days after finishing, I’m thinking about the book and seriously considering rereading it. It’s an interesting combination of dystopian and...

The Hole was only the second book by a Korean author I read, the first being The Vegetarian. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but both of these books seemed to have similar themes (plants being almost revered and (view spoiler)) along with a shared eerie vibe... 

 

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This novel started as a short story in the New Yorker which I found so compelling that I had to find out what happened next. While the entire book is worthwhile, with the story expanded out to 200 pages it loses some of the economy and suspense that were coiled up in that original story......