Familiar things /
Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a govern...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brunswick, Victoria, Australia ; London, United Kingdom :
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2017.
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| Summary: | Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-education camp'. Living in a shack and supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye's life on Flower Island is hard. But then one night he notices mysterious lights around the landfill. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in Korean as Natikeun Sesang by Munhakdongne 2011." |
| Physical Description: | 216 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781947534049 1947534041 9781925322019 1925322017 9781925228991 1925228991 |