Familiar Things by Sok-yong Hwang, translated by Sora Kim-Russell [in Booklist]
29 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW Toughened by a nickname thrown at him by a policeman threatening punishment, Bugeye arrives on Flower Island – an ironic name for the vast city dump on the outskirts of Seoul – with his mother, who works as a garbage picker. His father is...