The Bird by Oh Jung-Hee
U-il thinks he can fly, like his favourite cartoon character, Toto the Astroboy. His older sister, eleven-year-old U-mi, is doing her best to look after him since their mother died and their father deserted them. They've been shunted from one relative to the next, put up with a 'new mother', and endured their father's escalating violence, and now all they have are their well-meaning but unhelpful neighbours: the Moons, Landlady Grandma, the weightlifting Mr Yi and his squawking widow bird. U-mi does her best to care for her fragile younger brother, but her despair leads her to mimic her father's behaviour, abusing the one person closest to her...
'Delicate, understated writing that finds the extraordinary in the ordinary' Tobias Hill 'A magical concoction of fairy tale and poem. Exquisitely translated by Jennifer Wang Medina.' Polly Clark
Oh Jung-Hi was born in Seoul in 1947. The Korean War, the military dictatorship formed her infancy. In the 1970s, when modernisation was in full force, she began her career as a writer and is now an uncontested master of this genre of brief, dense prose, the quintessence of Korean literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846590214 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846590213 |
| Title | The Bird |
| Author | Oh Jung-Hee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Saqi Books |
| Year published | 2007-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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