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Please Look After Mother

The million copy Korean bestseller
By Kyung-Sook Shin
Series: W&N Essentials
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Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin is a poignant and emotional narrative about a family's search for their missing mother. As the family members retrace her steps through the streets of Seoul, they reflect on their relationships with her, uncovering personal regrets and shifting perspectives about her life. This exploration delves deeply into themes of family bonds, sacrifice, and the complexities of human connections.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Please Look After Mother

The two-million copy bestseller and winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, about a woman who disappears on a train platform, and her family's search to find her

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WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE

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 Mother?

Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mother is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.

'Kyung-Sook Shin's tale... has hit a nerve' Guardian

'A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood' New York Times Book Review

'The most moving and accomplished, and often startling, novel' Wall Street Journal

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Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin is a poignant Korean novel that delves into themes of memory, family, and motherhood. The story, which centres around an elderly woman's mysterious disappearance in Seoul, taps into universal emotions of guilt and regret, often juxtaposing traditional life with modernity. Critics praise its spare yet powerful prose and its ability to evoke deep emotional responses, highlighting the book's underlying commentary on family bonds and the often underappreciated sacrifices of mothers.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474621687

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 January 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 272

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Featured Fiction General Fiction In-Stock Fiction Books Kyung-Sook Shin Literary Fiction New Release Fiction Series: W&N Essentials

About the Author

Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, Mark of Respect Award (2012), and Ho-Am Prize for an Art (2013) as well as France's Prix de l'Inaper u and Man Asian Literary Prize (2011). She is the author of many prior works of fiction in addition to PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER, which has been published in 41 countries, and was on the New York Times bestselling list. Shin was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 2010 to 2011. She currently lives in Seoul.

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