Translated from the Korean by Chi-young Kim, Please Look After Mom () by Kyung-sook Shin is an international work of best-selling fiction. When year-old So-nyo Park goes missing one Saturday outside Seoul Station, her disappearance sets in motion a desperate search not only for where So-nyo might be but for who So-nyo was to her shocked and confused family members. Kyung-sook Shin is the author of numerous works of fiction and is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, as well as France's Prix de l'Inaperçu. "Please Look After Mom" is her first book to appear in English/5(). · Please Look After Mom, Shin Kyung-sook When sixty-nine-year-old So-Nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mom?/5.
International bestselling author Kyung-sook Shin has garnered unprecedented levels of success for her novel, Please Look After Mom. Originally published in South Korea in and having sold over a million and a half copies, it is the first of her books to be translated into English and has been published in nineteen countries worldwide. Mostly referred as "Mom" rather than Park So-nyo, she is the central character that drives the story to move on. Her disappearance immediately affects her whole family and most of the story is narrated about the contemplations that the family engages in as a result of those after-effects. Please Look After Mom () Kyung-sook Shin talks about the book on Bookbits radio. Please Look After Mom is the story of a missing mother and her family, told from the shifting points of view of each of the family members.
A best-seller in her native South Korea, Shin’s Please Look After Mom tells the story of Park So-nyo, a devoted, do-all wife and mother who mysteriously goes missing Primarily composed of four sections narrated by Park, her eldest son, her husband, and one of their two daughters, the book—Shin’s first to be translated into English—is a moving portrayal of the surprising nature, sudden sacrifices, and secret reveries of motherhood. Get the reading group guide for Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, reviewed by O Magazine in April Review: Please Look After Mom, Kyung-Sook Shin Novem / Diana First published in , this novel follows the disappearance of So-nyo, the eponymous mother, who gets lost among the crowds in a Seoul subway station.
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