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Please Look After Mom

by Shin Kyung-Sook, Chi-Young Kim
RM33.22 MYR
Please Look After Mom
Please Look After Mom

Family's quest reveals mother's concealed unhappiness.

If you're drawn to stories that delve into the complexity of family relationships and the silent sacrifices of parenthood, "Please Look After Mom" is a poignant read. It holds up a mirror to our familial bonds, nudging us to think about the often-overlooked depths of a mother's life and love.

  • Man Asian Literary Prize (2011)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Please Look After Mom

by Shin Kyung-Sook, Chi-Young Kim
RM33.22 MYR
ISBN: 9780307593917
Authors: Shin Kyung-Sook, Chi-Young Kim
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.91
(rated by 45022 readers)

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An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in Korea, Please Look After Mom is a stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their missing mother - and their discovery of the desires, heartaches, and secrets they never realized she harbored within. When 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. As they argue over the "Missing" flyers they are posting throughout the city - how large of a reward to offer, the best way to phrase the text - they realize that none of them have a recent photograph of Mom. Soon a larger question emerges: do they really know the woman they called Mom? Told by the alternating voices of Mom's daughter, son, her husband, and, in the shattering conclusion, by Mom herself, the novel pieces together, Rashomon-style, a life that appears ordinary but is anything but. This is a mystery of one mother that reveals itself to be the mystery of all our mothers: about her triumphs and disappointments and about who she is on her own terms, separate from who she is to her family. If you have ever been a daughter, a son, a husband, or a mother, Please Look After Mom is a revelation - one that will bring tears to your eyes.
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Family's quest reveals mother's concealed unhappiness.

If you're drawn to stories that delve into the complexity of family relationships and the silent sacrifices of parenthood, "Please Look After Mom" is a poignant read. It holds up a mirror to our familial bonds, nudging us to think about the often-overlooked depths of a mother's life and love.

  • Man Asian Literary Prize (2011)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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