Please Look After Mother

Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. In the past she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from the Korean countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children, So-nyo is separated from her husband when the doors close on a packed train. As her children and husband search the streets, they recall So-nyo's life, and all they have left unsaid. Through their piercing voices, we begin to discover the desires, heartaches, and secrets she harboured within. And as the mystery of her disappearance unravels, we uncover a larger mystery, that of all mothers and children: how affection, exasperation, hope and guilt add up to love. Compassionate, redemptive and beautifully written, Please Look After Mother will reconnect you to the story of your own family, and to the forgotten sacrifices that lie at its heart.

Literature & Fiction

Kyung-Sook Shin

Literary

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book.

Please Look After Mom

KNOPF

[Translated by Ha-yun Jung] [Read by Emily Woo Zeller]  The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller Please Look after Mom  Homesick and alone, a teenage girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sunless days on a stereo assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.  Korea's brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea's industrial sweatshops of the 1970s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea's economy out of the ashes of war. But it was girls like Shin's heroine who formed the bottom of Seoul's rapidly changing social hierarchy, forgotten and ignored.  Richly autobiographical, The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness lays bare the conflict and confusion Shin faces as she confronts her past and the sweeping social change of the past half-century. Cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade, this novel cements Shin's legacy as one of the most insightful and exciting writers of her generation.

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness

United States

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Dansul privighetorii de primavara (Romanian Edition)

Humanitas

Please Look After Mom (Chinese Edition)

Beijing United Publishing co., LTD

La novela ganadora del Man Asian Prize 2011. El mayor éxito de la literatura coreana.Park So-nyo se ha perdido en la bulliciosa estación central de Seúl cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad. Un instante de distracción de su marido y la gran aglomeración allí reunida fueron suficientes para que la pareja se separara y fuera incapaz de volver a encontrarse.A partir de ese momento, la búsqueda desesperada por parte de sus hijos se convierte también en una indagación en los recuerdos familiares. A través de las diferentes voces de su marido e hijos, que desvelan culpas y temores, se dibuja el retrato de una mujer humilde, campesina abnegada, cuyos sacrificios han quedado siempre en segundo término y que ahora, cuando ya no está, revelan su gran dimensión humana. Como un pájaro o una sombra, la presencia de Park So-nyo sobrevuela cada una de las páginas de esta novela llena de emoción para convertirla en un elogio sublime de los lazos familiares y la figura materna.

Por Favor, Cuida de Mama (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Grijalbo

Shin Gyeong Suk (Shin Kyung-sook), author of bestselling novel "Lijin" creates a heartbroken and elegant story with a stereotypical mother who invisibly stands behind her children as her sons and daughters, who depend on her so much, push her away. "Please Look After Mom" begins with a family searching for their missing mother at a subway station in Seoul. They were visiting from a small country village... This novel is translated into English and published on 4/5/2011 by Knopf and is featured on the NYT Books on 3/30/2011. It debuted on Amazon at #15 on 4/5/2011. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Please Look After Mom (Korean Edition)

창비

J Story (Korean Edition) : A Novel

maumsan

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