Hwang Sok-yong

Hwang Sok-yong is a South Korean novelist whose books include Familiar Things, Princess Bari, The Guest, and The Old Garden. Familiar Things follows a boy named Bugeye and his mother after they are pushed out to a landfill on the edge of Seoul, where the city's waste becomes a picture of the society that produced it. Princess Bari is a historical novel, and The Old Garden draws on the history of war.