The Bird - Couverture souple

Jung-Hee, Oh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846590213 ISBN 13 : 9781846590214

Editeur : Telegram Books, 2007

Synopsis

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...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Telegram Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846590213
• ISBN 13: 9781846590214
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible