Results for "Kyung-Sook Shin"

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.

"Please Look After Mom" delves into the complexities of family dynamics and the often unacknowledged sacrifices of motherhood. It's a beautifully crafted tale, which might make you reflect on your own family ties. Reading each character's perspective offers a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the haunting question of what it means to truly know someone. This compelling narrative could awaken your appreciation for the unspoken strength and dedication found in many mothers.

Combining a unique setting with universal themes, 'Please Look After Mother' is a tear-jerking, beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love.

The search for So-nyo transcends the physical. As her family delves into her disappearance, they're also peeling back layers of their own understanding and assumptions about her. This book isn't just for those intrigued by a mystery; it's a poignant exploration of family dynamics and the often overlooked depths of a mother's life and sacrifices. It's bound to resonate deeply, especially if you've ever pondered the complexities within your own family.

How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life. With profound intellectual and emotional insight, she revisits the death of her beloved mother, the strong bond with her now-dying former college professor, the excitement of her first love, and the friendships forged out of a shared sense of isolation and grief. Yoon’s formative experiences, which highlight both the fragility and force of personal connection in an era of absolute uncertainty, become immediately palpable. Shin makes the foreign and esoteric utterly her use of European literature as an interpreter of emotion and experience bridges any gaps between East and West. Love, friendship, and solitude are the same everywhere, as this book makes poignantly clear.

Description: Here are two Korean Literature books that exemplify this genre.

The initially subtle, yet immensely disquieting ominousness of The Vegetarian reads like Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, where the narrative gets stranger, more estranged with every page. The young woman protagonist, Yeong-Hye starts having nightmares full of blood and hanging meat and decides to become a vegetarian. What follows is a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body for Yeong-Hye, as she impossibly, ecstatically, tragically becomes strewn far away from her once-known self.

Please Look After Mother tells a deeply 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. Both works display the quiet yet powerful style of Korean writers, offering beautifully written books with sensitivity and heart.

Consists of: The Vegetarian (Well Read), Please Look After Mother (Well Read)

Description: Here are two Korean Literature books that exemplify this genre. The initially subtle, yet immensely disquieting ominousness of The Vegetarian reads like Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, where the narrative gets stranger, more estranged with every page. The young woman protagonist, Yeong-Hye starts having nightmares full of blood and hanging meat and decides to become a vegetarian. What follows is a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body for Yeong-Hye, as she impossibly, ecstatically, tragically becomes strewn far away from her once-known self.
Please Look After Mother tells a deeply 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. Both works display the quiet yet powerful style of Korean writers, offering beautifully written books with sensitivity and heart.
Consists of: The Vegetarian (Well Read), Please Look After Mother (Well Read)