Please Look After Mother
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WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE
'An authentic, moving story that brings to vivid life the deep family connections that lie at the core of Korean culture'
Gary Shteyngart
'Kyung-Sook Shin's tale... has hit a nerve'
Guardian
'A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood'
New York Times
'The most moving and accomplished, and often startling, novel'
Wall Street Journal
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. 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 Mother?
Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.
With an introduction by Banana Yoshimoto
A W&N Essential
Kyung-Sook Shin is the author of numerous works of fiction and is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She was the first woman to be awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize (for PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER), and she has also been honored with the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, as well as France's Prix de l'Inaperçu. PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER, her first book to appear in English, has been published in twenty-nine countries and has sold over two million copies in South Korea alone.