TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hwang,Sog-yong
AU  - Kim-Russell,Sora
TI  - Familiar things
SN  - 9781925322019
AV  - PL992.29.S6 N38 2017
U1  - 895.734 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Brunswick, Victoria
PB  - Scribe Publications
KW  - Korean fiction
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Friendship
KW  - fast
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Seoul
KW  - Seoul (Korea)
N1  - First published in Korean as Natikeun Sesang by Munhakdongne 2011, First published in English by Scribe 2017
N2  - 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. Vibrant and enchanting, Familiar Things depicts a society on the edge of dizzying economic and social change, and is a haunting reminder to us all to be careful of what we throw away
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