Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook

As memories accrue, the narrative becomes increasingly poignant and psychologically revealing of all the characters, and though it does sometimes go soggy with pathos, most readers should find resonance in this family story, a runaway bestseller in Korea poised for a similar run here. Narrating in her own voice late in the book, the spirit of Mom watches her family and finally voices her lifelong loneliness and depression and recalls the one secret in her life. Her irresponsible and harshly critical husband, meanwhile, finally acknowledges the depth of his love and the seriousness of her sacrifices for him. Having, through Mom's unstinting dedication, achieved professional success, her children understand for the first time the hardships she endured. After Park So-nyo's disappearance, her grown children and her husband are filled with guilt and remorse at having taken So-nyo for granted and reflect, in a round-robin of narration, on her life and role in their lives. Urn:oclc:803861479 Republisher_date 20150420082908 Republisher_operator Scandate 20150403070327 Scanner 's affecting English-language debut centers on the life of a hardworking, uncomplaining woman who goes missing in a bustling Seoul subway station. 'Shin renders a tender and beautiful portrait of South Korea, but the novel recognizes a familial dilemma experienced throughout the world.' -. Please Look After Mom (Vintage Contemporaries) Paperback Apby Kyung-Sook Shin (Author) 1,408 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 21.88 Other new, used and collectible from 1. It will be published in twenty-nine countries and has sold over 2 million copies in South Korea alone. A best-seller in her native South Korea, Shins Please Look After Mom tells the story of Park So-nyo, a devoted, do-all wife and mother who mysteriously goes missing.

She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look After Mom'. OL16504311W Page_number_confidence 88.64 Pages 266 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0297860739 Please Look After Mom is her first book to appear in English. Associated Names: Shin Kyung-sook Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. Urn:lcp:pleaselookafterm00sink:epub:13c5ce05-f519-4eb0-9dc9-0c4aabf6c5c9 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier pleaselookafterm00sink Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t09w3v813 Invoice 11 Isbn 9780307593917Ġ307593916 Lccn 2010035230 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL25200898M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:38:20 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1130614 Boxid_2 CH125601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.

Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook