Familiar things
By: Hwang Sok-Yong ; translated by Sora Kim-Russell
Contributors: Kim-Russell, Sora, translator
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781947534049
Subjects: Urban poor; Friendship; Fiction
Work titles: Natikeun sesang
Description: Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-education camp'. Living in a shack and supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye's life on Flower Island is hard. But then one night he notices mysterious lights around the landfill.