Familiar Things

by Hwang Sok-yong

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947534041
• ISBN13: 9781947534049
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Scribe Us
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.8"