"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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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