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Please Look After Mom (Hardcover)

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    A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation¿Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family¿s search for their mother, and of the desires, heartaches, and secr......more

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A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation?Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family?s search for their mother, and of the desires, heartaches, and secrets they discover she harbored within.

On a family visit to the city, Mom is right behind her husband when the train pulls out of Seoul Station without her, and she is lost, possibly forever. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? Through the piercing voices of daughter, son, and husband, and through Mom?s own words in the novel?s shattering conclusion, we learn what happened that day, and explore an even deeper mystery?of motherhood itself.

At once steeped in the beauty and complexities of the East and rich with a universal tenderness, Please Look After Mom has a revelatory emotional power. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you?ve read this book.

Author:
Shin, Kyung-sook
ISBN:
9780307593917
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
237
Publish Date:
04/05/2011
Publisher:
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Language:
English

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  • Shin's affecting English-language debut centers on the life of a hardworking, uncomplaining woman who goes missing in a bustling Seoul subway station. 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. Having, through Mom's unstinting dedication, achieved professional success, her children understand for the first time the hardships she endured. Her irresponsible and harshly critical husband, meanwhile, finally acknowledges the depth of his love and the seriousness of her sacrifices for him. 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. 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. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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