Oh Jung-Hee was born in Seoul in 1947. In the 1970s, when modernisation was in full force in Korea, 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.
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'Oh Jung-Hee attempts that tricky enterprise, a narrative seen through the eyes of a child. She succeeds through a delicate, understated writing that finds drama in the everyday, and the extraordinary in the ordinary.'
Tobias Hill, author of The Cryptographer
Small birds were flying up into the darkening sky. I kept feeling like I had forgotten something and suddenly stopped short, raising my arms and staring at my empty hands. Where had I left that birdcage? Where had the bird gone?
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