#Hye-Young Pyun

[k-star-holic]

Ahn So-young, '69 years old 'Pink Man with a businessman' ... 'Do you want to get together' Stone fastball ('Let's buy together')

[goryhorroor]

Hi! No idea of this is your wheelhouse at all, but do you have any recs for horror novels? In particular more modern books. Not sure if this is your thing at all so no worries if the answer is no, just curious! Have a lovely day!!

sure! these are some of my favorites

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Whisper by Chang Yu-ko, but you can find the translation by Roddy Flagg

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, translation by Megan McDowell

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

The Hole by Pyun Hye-Young, translation by Sora Kim-Russell

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Orpheus Builds a Girl by Heather Parry

The Shadow of Book of Ji Yun, translated by Yi Izzy Yu & John Yu Branscum

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

A Good House for Children by Kate Collins

Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

The Grip of It by Jac Jemc

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Gingerbread Men by Joanna Corrance

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

The Lonely by Andrew Michael Hurley

Served by Scott Snyder, Scott Tuft & Attila Futaki

The Lost Ones by Anita Frank

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

From Below by Darcy Coates

The Fisherman by John Langen

[notmorbid]

the hole.

dialogue prompts from the hole by hye-young pyun.

the real fight starts now.

you are clearly not okay.

i didn't know what to ask.

don't feel embarrassed.

recovery takes a long time.

if there's one thing i hate, it's tales of miraculous recoveries.

how does it feel to be home again?

i'm in no shape to comfort anyone.

my father has a lot, but i'm all my mother has.

i don't mean to poke at old wounds.

i want all the gory details.

i was trying to figure out how to apologize.

you'd abandon your family to ensure your own success.

assholes like you always succeed.

you can't represent the world through maps alone.

at least maps improve with failure.

your forties are well-suited to all manner of sin.

i stopped growing a long time ago.

you know better than anyone what a hack i am.

climbing plants give me the creeps.

you'll never guess who's come to visit.

you always imagine the worst possible circumstances for yourself.

not even you could have guessed.

he's come to pray for you.

i'm sorry i drank it all.

i thought i would feel free, but i don't.

who is this?

i feel removed from the entire world.

only someone like jesus christ himself could do your job.

i'll stay with you, for the time being.

your pledges and promises are useless.

you can't choose cynicism over grief.

you're making me extremely uncomfortable.

were you cussing?

you look good.

do you like being back home?

you look just as tired as me.

there are sides of you that only family can see.

it's like being born all over again.

i wanted you to be surprised.

i've become a laughingstock.

not everyone could do what you did.

misery does love company.

once you experience loss, you find it has a good side.

a dead husband is so much better than a cheating husband.

raised with so much love and care, only to die for no reason.

you act like i'm not even here.

leaning on someone leads to hugging.

when you get old, you don't hold back. you stop watching what you say.

my world was the only one that collapsed.

i'm always thinking about you.

i didn't know you worried about me.

there are things i can only bear because of you.

you can't stay in the house forever.

[corpsecoded]

The world’s oldest map, the Babylonian Map of the World, had a little circle bored through the center. Scholars explained that the hole had come from using a compass to trace the two outer rings of the map. Oghi was captivated more by that hole than by the geometric shapes engraved in the clay tablet, and had stared at it for a long time in the darkened exhibit room of the British Museum. That dark, narrow hole went as deep as the memory of an age that no one could ever return to. The only way to reach that lost age was through that hole, but the hole itself could never be reached.

Pyun Hye-Young, The Hole

[jamesdavisnicoll]

The Owl Cries by Hye-Young Pyun (Translated by Sora Kim-Russell) A hard-working lawyer searches for his missing brother in a peculiar rustic community. This is a terrible error of judgment on the lawyer's part.

[geryone]

What books did you buy?

I’ve been making an effort to read more translated fiction!

I got:

The Hole by Pyun Hye-young

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Paradais by Fernanda Melchor

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

[cindyssouthkoreanlitblog]

10 interesting South Korean novels

The Vegetarian - Han Kang 

“Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.” (good reads)

Love in the big city- Sang young park 

“Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Both award-winning for its unique literary voice and perspective, and particularly resonant with young readers, it has been a phenomenon in Korea and is poised to capture a worldwide readership.” (good reads)

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki - baek se-hee 

“Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, performing the calmness her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like? Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.” (good reads)

The Investigation - Jung Myung lee 

“Fukuoka Prison, 1944. Beyond the prison walls, the war rages. Inside, a man is found brutally murdered. What follows is a searing portrait of Korea before their civil war, and a testimony to the redemptive power of poetry. Watanabe Yuichi, a young guard with a passion for reading, is ordered to investigate a murder. The victim, Sugiyama, also a guard, was feared and despised throughout the prison and inquiries have barely begun when a powerful inmate confesses. But Watanabe is unconvinced; and as he interrogates both the suspect and Yun Dong-ju, a talented Korean poet, he starts to realize that the fearsome guard was not all he appeared to be…” (good reads)

The Hole - Hye young pyun 

“In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife’s life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Ogi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house. But soon Ogi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.” (good reads)

Human Acts - Han kang 

“In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.” (good reads)

The Good Son - you-jeong jeong 

“Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home - he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. He can't remember much about the night before; having suffered from seizures for most of his life, Yu-jin often has trouble with his memory. All he has is a faint impression of his mother calling his name. But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life?” (good reads)

The Plotters - kim un-su

“Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind--a plotter--working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of the city's most dangerous criminals, but their existence is little more than legend. Just who are the plotters? And more important, what do they want?

Reseng is an assassin. Raised by a cantankerous killer named Old Raccoon in the crime headquarters "The Library," Reseng never questioned anything: where to go, who to kill, or why his home was filled with books that no one ever read. But one day, Reseng steps out of line on a job, toppling a set of carefully calibrated plans. And when he uncovers an extraordinary scheme set into motion by an eccentric trio of young women--a convenience store clerk, her wheelchair-bound sister, and a cross-eyed librarian--Reseng will have to decide if he will remain a pawn or finally take control of the plot.

Crackling with action and filled with unforgettable characters, The Plotters is a deeply entertaining thriller that soars with the soul, wit, and lyricism of real literary craft.” (good reads)

Lemon - Kwon yeo sun

“In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. Two suspects quickly emerge: rich kid Shin Jeongjun, whose car Hae-on was last seen in, and delivery boy Han Manu, who witnesses Hae-on in the passenger seat of Jeongjun's car just a few hours before her death. But when Jeongjun's alibi turns out to be solid, and no evidence can be pinned on Manu, the case goes cold. Seventeen years pass without any resolution for those who knew and loved Hae-on, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she's lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened.” (good reads)

The Old Woman with the Knife - Gu Byeong-mo 

“At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age--that she'll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw is not like other people. She is an assassin. Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses--for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed them all with ruthless efficiency, and the less she's known about her targets, the better. But now, nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. An injury leads her to an unexpected connection with a doctor and his family. But emotions, for an assassin, are a dangerous proposition. As Hornclaw's world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.” (good reads)

[bookpillows]

13,12

12. Any books that disappointed you?

The Book Collector by Alice Thompson, The Law of Line by Hye-Young Pyun, and Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu Lopez and Catcalling by Soho Lee were all particularly disappointing out of all my lowly rated books this year

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim by a MILE. least favorite doesn't even begin to describe how much i dislike this book

[absentmoon]

...Considering it's a gothic lit class, I'm assuming you're not talking about the 2014 novel about gender roles in Japan by Hiroko Oyamada? Bc that's the only The Hole I'm aware of aldkskdk

NOOO this one is the hole by hye-young pyun, translated by sora kim-russell!! would love to hear other thoughts on it like Is this just me. Because wow

[ladymetroland]

top five horror movies and/or books

Ooh full disclosure, i love bad movies so this may be hit or miss but:

Movies

1. The Shining (hit, obviously)

2. Smile (scared the shit out of me)

3. Get Out (soooo anxious the whole time)

4. As Above So Below (helen and i watch this every halloween)

5. Final Destination 3 (NOT good, DID change me)

Bonus: BOO (i am one of i think two people who have seen this)

Books (i'm very picky about horror books honestly, but off the top of my head...)

1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson (idk if it's scary but it is theeee book)

2. Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica and Sarah Moses (fucked uppppp)

3. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (sorry but i read this when i was like 26 and it gave me legit nightmares)

4. The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun and Sora Kim Russell (just a profound sense of Dread)

5. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (fucked UPPPP)

[barrypwelsh-blog]

‘The Owl Cries’ by Pyun Hye-young, 편혜영, book review, 책 리뷰

[dsf-ro]

30.11.23

Hố đen sâu thẳm - Pyun Hye-young

Đôi khi có những va chạm, khúc mắc, hiểu lầm trong cuộc sống nhưng không cùng chân thành tháo gỡ, cứ bị bỏ mặc bởi sự thờ ơ vô tâm rồi trở thành nguồn cơn nguyên nhân kéo theo những mâu thuẫn, thất vọng, xa cách, ghét bỏ, thù hận lớn hơn. Nó bén rễ, cộng dồn với hàng trăm vết cắt rồi tới một lúc nào đó không thể vãn hỗi được.

Nhân quả?

Anh ta có yêu vợ mình không? Anh ta nói rằng có. Anh ta đau khổ trước cái chết của vợ. Nhưng anh ta cũng đã chán ghét, cảm thấy phiền phức, mất kiên nhẫn trước sự bất an của người vợ. Anh ta tự cho rằng mình tôn trọng vợ, để vợ thích làm gì thì làm nhưng nếu thành thật với bản thân hơn thì chính xác hơn là anh ta chỉ quan tâm nửa vời, mất đi sự chân thành trong sự chia sẻ cuộc sống hàng ngày, mặc kệ sự xa cách ngày càng lớn, anh ta thờ ơ, bỏ rơi người vợ, vô ý chôn vùi cuộc cuộc hôn nhân của mình.

Liệu một người có tuổi thơ bất hạnh, cô đơn chưa từng được yêu thương, thì khi lớn lên có thể yêu thương người khác không? Anh ta ghét người bố thực dụng của mình, nhưng anh ta lại trở thành người như vậy, vì cuộc đời xô đẩy anh ta thành ra như thế, cũng có thể nói anh ta đã lựa chọn cuộc sống như vậy. Mệt mỏi, toan tính & cô đơn.

Anh ta đáng thương, vì cuối cùng không còn ai yêu thương anh ta. Anh ta yêu bản thân mình. Nhưng chính anh ta đã gián tiếp đẩy bản thân rơi xuống "hố đen sâu thẳm", dẫn tới một kết cục thật nghiệt ngã.

[tawus]

hi Tawus :) how is my favorite AO3 author doing?

Hello! She's alright, enjoying the brief autumn after the scorching summer and before a freezing winter, making creative and career plans, reading novel after novel like her life depends on it (finished 'The Sellout' by Paul Beatty - highly recommend btw, and now almost finished 'The Hole' by Pyun Hye-young), behaving slightly alcoholic, and next up in her fanfic plans is Sophisticated chapter 9. How's my bestie who periodically checks on me? 🩷

[corpsecoded]

Pyun Hye-Young, The Hole

[expendablemudge]

THE OWL CRIES is another of Arcade Publishing's #Korean #translation #thrillerbooks by Pyun Hye-Young. It gets my #BookRecommendation here: https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-owl-cries-latest-anxiety-fiction.html