The Bird

"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.— Google Books