Review
'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
Product Description
“Delicate, understated writing that finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.”—Tobias Hill
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.
Now all they have are their well meaning but unhelpful neighbors—the Moons, Landlady Grandma, the weightlifting Mr Yi and his squawking widow bird—and despair is leading U-mi to mimic her father’s behavior, abusing the one person closest to her.
Oh Jung-Hee is an uncontested master of short fiction in Korea.
About the Author
Oh Jung-Hee was born in Seoul in 1947. She is an uncontested master of the short story in Korea, and is the recipient of the Dongin Literature Award and the Yi Sang Prize. She has published four collections of stories and her work has been translated and published in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
