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Please Look After Mom

About the Book

Please Look After Mom

written by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim

A Man Asian Literary Prize winner.

When 69-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 Mom?
 
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
written by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim

  • Publication Date: April 3, 2012
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN-10: 0307739511
  • ISBN-13: 9780307739513