Part 1: This is Green Lake Camp
Part 2 The Last Pit
Part 3: Filling the Pit

Translator's Note

A story that melds growth, adventure, social criticism, humor, and emotion.
A fat boy who is bullied at school is taken to a hellish desert and forced to do hard labor.
However, in this miserable situation, the boy awakens to his potential and grows greatly both physically and mentally.
Teenage readers will be captivated by Stanley, the protagonist who, despite facing hardships with his whole body, never loses his optimism, believes in miracles, and refuses to give up even in the worst of situations.


This is what the power of storytelling is all about!
Forced labor in juvenile detention centers, a family curse passed down through generations, and a tragic love driven by racial discrimination.
At first glance, seemingly unrelated characters, places, and events are connected by a tenacious bond of fate, and the story leads readers to completely unexpected places from beginning to end.
Not only is there the joy of seeing the puzzle pieces of the story fall into place one by one, but there is also a refreshing climax at the end where the family's fate is turned around.
This is the kind of story that once you get caught up in it, you can't let go!

The book became a hit even before the translated version was published.
Even before the translated version was published, “Holes” was a popular English novel in middle and high schools and academies.
This work, which is used as a required reading for vacation homework or as an English textbook at academies, is easily found in reviews from readers who say they stayed up all night reading it because of its easy and concise sentences and the twists and turns that follow one after another.