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May 1, 2013 · Hiroko Oyamada’s beautiful and succinct novella The Hole begins when Asa’s husband takes a job far from the city and they uproot their lives, gratefully accepting free housing from his parent’s in the house they own next door. Asa quickly begins to feel her sense of identity dispersing as the events surrounding her days begin to seem more ...
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The Hole (Japanese: 穴, Hepburn: Ana) is a novel by Hiroko Oyamada. Originally published in 2014, it is Oyamada's second novel to be translated into English, after The Factory. Translated by David Boyd, an Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the novel was published in 2020 by New Directions.
Oct 6, 2020 · The Hole. Paperback – October 6, 2020. by Hiroko Oyamada (Author), David Boyd (Translator) 3.9 419 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling.
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Oct 6, 2020 · Hiroko Oyamada’s novel “The Hole” is a surreal and mesmerizing tale about gaps in memory and a woman’s transformation.
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Oct 6, 2020 · One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole—a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her.
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Oct 6, 2020 · One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole—a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her.
Oct 6, 2020 · One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole—a hole that seems to have...
