Please Look After Mom - Wikipedia
WEBPlease Look After Mom (Korean: 엄마를 부탁해; RR: eommaleul butaghae) is a novel by South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin. It sold a million copies within 10 months of release in 2009 in South Korea, is critically acclaimed internationally and the English translation by Chi-young Kim won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize .
'Please Look After Mom': A Guilt Trip To The Big City - NPR
WEBApr 5, 2011 · The back cover of the American edition, brought out by Knopf, is filled with blurbs by heavyweights like Gary Shteyngart and Edwidge Danticat. They, too, must share a weakness for melodramas...
Please Look After Mother — Kyung - Sook Shin
WEBAlternately heart wrenching and uplifting, this intimate novel illuminates the complexities of love among family members. A heart rending account of a mother’s anchoring effect on her family’s life and an astute, intimate stuffy of regret, is …
Please Look After Mom: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
WEBApr 3, 2012 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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.
Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-Sook - Goodreads
WEBWhen sixty-nine year old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, and vanishes, their children are consumed with loud recriminations, and are awash in sorrow and guilt.
Kyung-sook Shin’s ‘Please Look After Mom’ - Review - The New …
WEBMar 30, 2011 · When Mom makes one of her back-breaking day trips to Seoul for a wedding, she typically makes kimchi out of salted cabbage she has brought, scrubs the pots, cleans the stove, sews blanket...
Please Look After Mom - amazon.com
WEBApr 3, 2012 · Please Look After Mom is the story of a mother's disappearance after being separated from her husband at a crowded Seoul subway station. One moment her husband is ahead of her, gets on the train and somehow she is not with him. She is missing.
Please Look After Mom - Penguin Random House
WEBTold 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.
Please Look After Mom - amazon.com
WEBJan 1, 2011 · 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.
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin: Summary and …
WEBApr 5, 2011 · Please Look After Mom is an authentic, moving story that brings to vivid life the deep family connections that lie at the core of Korean culture. But it also speaks beautifully to an urgent issue of our time: migration, and how the movement of people from small towns and villages to big cities can cause heartbreak and even tragedy.