Familiar things
Hwang, Sŏg-yŏng, 1943-2018
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Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Populated by 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 're-education camp'. As Bugeye and his mother settle in to living among the strange folk of Flower Island, they build themselves a shack and begin earning a living weeding recyclables out of the vast piles of refuse brought in daily from the city. But then Bugeye begins to notice mysterious lights around the landfill at night - and as spring comes to the garbage mountain, a danger that has lain dormant begins to surface.
Main title:
Familiar things / Hwang Sok-Yong ; translated by Sora Kim-Russell.
Author:
Hwang, Sŏg-yŏng, 1943-, authorKim-Russell, Sora, translator
Imprint:
Melbourne : Scribe, 2018.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Korean.
ISBN:
9781911617198 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.734
LC class:
PL992.29.S6
Language:
EnglishKorean
BRN:
2254030