Please look after mom

“It’s been one week since Mom went missing.” So begins Kyung-sook Shin’s best-selling Korean novel Please Look After Mom, a haunting and deceptively simple book about a mother’s sudden disappearance. After losing his wife at a Seoul train station, a father tries to piece together her slow, ambiguous dissociation and his part in her depression. A daughter learns that she never knew her mother the way she thought she had. A son realizes how much his mother gave up for him to succeed. And…

Please Look After Mom by South Korean Writer Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin Kyung-sook has been KTLIT-wikipediafied.. Life Shin Kyung-sook was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup in Jeolla Province in southern Korea. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of…

Shin Kyung-Sook’s novel, Please Look After Mom, is one of the most tragic books I have ever read. The characters are all flawed human beings, some deeply so. These flaws unintentionally colli…

Kyung-sook Shin’s novel about a selfish family’s penitence amid the disappearance of its matriarch has been released in English after selling more than a million copies in South Korea.

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Please look after Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin

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