Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook

The back cover of the American edition, brought out by Knopf, is filled with blurbs by heavyweights like Gary Shteyngart and Edwidge Danticat. How else to explain why Please Look After Mom, a new novel by Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin, has already sold over one-million copies in her native South Korea? This literary phenom is scheduled to be published in 22 other countries and has just come out in the U.S. Retrieved 10 December 2013.Mama Mia, who knew that Koreans outstrip Italians and Jews when it comes to mother guilt! ^ 'Please Look After Mom Bilingual Set'.

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'A Mother's Devotion, a Family's Tearful Regrets'.

^ 'South Korean novelist announced as first woman to win Man Asian Literary Prize' Archived at the Wayback Machine Man Asian Prize homepage 15 March 2012.Hong Tae-hee: a director of an orphanage whom she donated to.The style of Please Look After Mom is a bit unusual, as Julie Hunt noted in booklist, 'Composed almost entirely in second-person narration, the writing is sharp, biting, and intensely moving.' Characters The novel also considers themes related to the self-sacrifice of mothers in general (and in Korea in particular), the relationship between memories of the past and realities of the present, and the chameleonic aspects of identity. 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? The novel explores the loss, self-recrimination, and in some cases, self-discovery caused by the mother's disappearance.

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. The book was also chosen by Oprah to be one of her '18 Books to Watch for in April 2011 and by Amazon as one of its 'Best Books of the Month: April 2011'. Īs of April 2012, the book has sold two million copies and the publisher has printed a 10,000-copy special edition to commemorate the achievement. The novel has been adapted as a stage play and musical. 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 ( Korean: 엄마를 부탁해) is a novel by South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin.

Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook