How much do you know your mother? Are you often mad at her because she’s irritating? Does she always ask you to do some household chores? Or are you considering her as the witch in your own fairytale? Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin is about the disappearance of an illiterate and elderly ...
Please Look After Mom has been on my TBR pile for a while and one day browsing through the library shelves I spotted a copy. And thought this must be fate, so you know the rest. I wasn’t sure what to expect I had never read a book written by a Korean writer before. But I have watched a lot of good K...
جميلةٌ هذه الرواية .. وإنسانية جدًا ...أكثر ما أعجبني .. بعد حكايتها الأصلية عن الأم التي تبذل كل شيءٍ من أجل زوجها وأولادها، ثم تختفي فجأة ليشعروا بالفراغ الهـائل المترتيب على غيابها، أكثر ما أعجبني هو تلك التفاصيل الإنسانية الصغيرة التي تتشابه لدى الناس عامة ... فبالرغم من أن الكاتبة "كورية" إلا أ...
Este es de esos libros donde la historia no es particularmente interesante, pero tiene momentos que llevan a reflexionar sobre aspectos de la ida cotidiana que damos por sentados, así como la forma en que nos relacionamos con la gente que nos rodea.Lo mas interesante es que al principio no me agrada...
(From http://www.pingwings.ca/please-look-after-mom/)I really wanted to read this book, but at the same time, I put off reading it because I worried it would be a gut-wrenching, emotional book and I wasn’t sure that I was ready for that. So I put it off and put it off and put it off, and finally las...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/please-look-after-mom.htmlPlease Look After Mom is a book translated from Korean. Kyung-sook Shin is an acclaimed South Korean author, and this is her first book that has been translated into English.It is the story of...
The book was mainly told in the second person, using the viewpoints of 3-4 people. I found this method of storytelling very confusing as I didn't know who *I* was supposed to be be most of the time. It took me several pages of a new scene to figure out whose head I was in. Unlike The Help, which had...
I liked the unusual storytelling format—second-person narrative of one child, then third-person narrative of another, then second-person of the father, then first-person of the mother—if only for its novelty. I'm not sure I understand why the story is told that way or what it's meant to accomplish, ...
A heart-wrenching story of a Korean family whose elderly mother goes missing on a subway train. The life and characteristics of this old amazing woman, Park Sgyuen, gradually unfolds as each member of the family tells in his or her words of his relationship with Mom. We learn about the sacrifices ...
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